#  Nirvana Tanoukhi 

 

 



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Nirvana Tanoukhi’s current scholarship and pedagogy asks: How does a work of literature like a novel, especially one from or about a "distant" place, establish a sense of context to ground an interpretation? On what scale – geographic, social, linguistic, or other – does a literary work unfold for readers? And how, accordingly, might we conceive of our reading practice, whether we call it literary interpretation, appreciation, or “close reading”? Tanoukhi finds such questions crucial for understanding globalization’s current challenge to the Western liberal democratic tradition, and its long-standing commitment to the pursuit of truth, freedom, pleasure, and duty.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Literature](/disciplines/comparative-literature) [English](/disciplines/english)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2009 - 2010](/fellowship-year/2009-2010)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)