Professor Poulomi Saha, "At Home in What World?" (Second Meeting of Tagore Reading Group)

NOVEL THEORY

SPEAKER: Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley

This will be the second meeting of the Tagore Reading Group. The same zoom link as the March 31 meeting will be used, so no additional registration is necessary.

At the intersections of psychoanalytic critique, feminist and queer theory, postcolonial studies, and ethnic American literature, Professor Saha’s research and teaching span eastward and forward from the late 19th century decline of British colonial rule in the Indian Ocean through to the Pacific and the rise of American global power and domestic race relations in the 20th century.  Rather than a chronological account of transfers of global power, her work examines shared histories of racialization, governance and regulation of gender/sexuality, and politics of resistance within this broad vision of Anglophone empire. Her first book, An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor & The Fabrication of East Bengal (Columbia University Press, 2019) was awarded the Harry Levin Prize for outstanding first book by the American Comparative Literature Association in 2020 and the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize (2017).  In addition to being affiliated faculty in the Program on Critical Theory and in the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and South and Southeast Studies, she serves on the editorial boards of Representations and the Critical South book series.  She earned her BA in International Relations (Development Economics) and English from Mount Holyoke College and her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. .

How To Join

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If you have any questions, please contact Deidre Lynch at deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu or Yoon Sun Lee at ylee@wellesley.edu.