Department of English

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Refreshments will be served.

This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of English and the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Speaker Bio:

Deepika Bahri is Professor in the English department at Emory University. She is the author of Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature, and Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire. She has edited two collections, Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality, and Realms of Rhetoric: Inquiries into the Prospects of Rhetoric Education. She specializes in postcolonial and world literature, Frankfurt School critical theory, race, culture, postcolonial theory, political aesthetics and philosophical discourses of utopia and the good life. She has secondary interests in human health. She is director of the interdisciplinary program in Global and Postcolonial Studies.