Rewriting English: Gauri Viswanathan’s Masks of Conquest at Twenty-Five
Events
Cosponsors
- University Seminars
- Columbia University Press
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
- Department of English
- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- New York University Department of English
The Heyman Center hosts an all-day conference celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Gauri Viswanathan's Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. Viswanathan’s book changed the way we think about English Literature as a "discipline" -- both educational and colonial; it continues to be one of the most important works on the teaching of English in colonial India, and one of the most important analyses for the idea of literature as a conscious strategy of hegemony. In this commemorative event, sixteen of her former students, along with other scholars of postcolonial thought, will give short papers that consider the legacy of this work.
Event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Program
November 7, 2014 Friday
9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Welcome and Introduction
10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Speaking, Reading, Being Read
Sonali Perera
Associate Professor of English
Hunter College, City University of New York
Tim Watson
Associate Professor of English
University of Miami
Siraj Ahmed
Associate Professor of English
Lehman College, City University of New York
11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Colonial Exchange and Change
Suzanne Daly
Associate Professor of English
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sunil Agnani
Associate Professor of English and History
University of Illinois at Chicago
Amy Martin
Associate Professor of English
Mount Holyoke College
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Break I
1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Out of Place
Michael Malouf
Associate Professor of English
George Mason University
Cóilín Parsons
Assistant Professor of English
Georgetown University
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Associate Professor of English
Carleton University
Sanjay Krishnan
Associate Professor of English
Boston University
2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
The Political Conscious
Helen Kapstein
Assistant Professor of English
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Richard Jean So
Assistant Professor of English
University of Chicago
Joshua L. Miller
Associate Professor of English
University of Michigan
3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Break II
3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Method and Mentorship
Sailaja Sastry
Lecturer in English
Barnard College
Moustafa Bayoumi
Professor of English
Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
Radhika Jones
Deputy Managing Editor
Time Magazine
4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Crossing Paths
Isabel Hofmeyr
Professor of African Literature
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Una Chaudhuri
Collegiate Professor and Professor of English and Drama
New York University Abu Dhabi
Participants
- Sunil Agnani Associate Professor of English and History University of Illinois at Chicago
- Dohra Ahmad Associate Professor of English St. John's University
- Siraj Ahmed Associate Professor of English Lehman College, City University of New York
- Moustafa Bayoumi Professor of English Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
- Sarah Phillips Casteel Associate Professor of English Carleton University
- Una Chaudhuri Collegiate Professor and Professor of English and Drama New York University Abu Dhabi
- Suzanne Daly Associate Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Elaine Freedgood Professor of English New York University
- Isabel Hofmeyr Professor of African Literature University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Radhika Jones Deputy Managing Editor Time Magazine
- Helen Kapstein Assistant Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Anjuli Raza Kolb Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Williams College
- Sanjay Krishnan Associate Professor of English Boston University
- Michael Malouf Associate Professor of English George Mason University
- Amy Martin Associate Professor of English Mount Holyoke College
- Joshua L. Miller Associate Professor of English University of Michigan
- Cóilín Parsons Assistant Professor of English Georgetown University
- Sonali Perera Associate Professor of English Hunter College, City University of New York
- Sailaja Sastry Lecturer in English Barnard College
- Richard Jean So Assistant Professor of English University of Chicago
- Tim Watson Associate Professor of English University of Miami