Adapting Alice
Maguire’s usually brilliant imagination for adaptation seems to be missing in his retelling of Alice in Wonderland, which left me…
Join us for Brown Bag Seminar with Gina Philogene this Wed, 3/30
Please join us for this Wednesday’s Brown Bag where Professor Gina Philogene will be giving a talk titled, Thinking evil:…
CSSW 2016 Call For Posters
The Computer Science Students’ Association is officially issuing a call for posters for the Spring 2016 Computer Science Student Workshop….
Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters
After deciding to include Mercedes Lackey’s Unnatural Issue in my dissertation about adaptations of the “Donkeyskin” fairy tale, it only made…
Rachel Liebert wins an outstanding dissertation award!
Rachel Liebert’s dissertation, “Becoming-serpent: Mapping coils of paranoia within a neocolonial security state”, was selected as the co-winner for outstanding…
“Gilroy After the Black Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and the Post-Racial Imaginary?”
Friday, March 25 Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Friday, April 29 Postcolonial Melancholia Friday, May 13 Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economics of Black Atlantic Culture All meetings take place in Rm. 5414, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM The … Continue reading →
Ato Quayson’s “On the Affliction of Second Thoughts: Modes of Doubt in Postcolonial Tragedy”
Friday, February 26th, 2016 Rm. 5414, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm The Graduate Center, CUNY Ato Quayson is Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He has written … Continue reading →
Postcolonial Oceanic Methods: A Talk and Discussion with Isabel Hofmeyr
Isabel Hofmeyr is Global Distinguished Professor at New York University and Professor of African Literature at University of the Witwatersrand. Her work, including Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading (2013) and The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress (2003), explores … Continue reading →
Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s “The Post-Anglophone Era”
Professor Walkowitz will be discussing contemporary world literature and the state of the novel from the perspective of what she calls the “Post-Anglophone Era.” She will also reflect on the argument of her new book, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel … Continue reading →
Chika Okeke-Agulu’s Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Dr. Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of Art and Archeology at Princeton University, is an Igbo-Nigerian artist, art historian, art curator, and blogger specializing in African and African Diaspora Art History. He is widely published in art and scholarly journals on classical, … Continue reading →
Patricia White’s “Women’s Cinema, World Cinema”
Patricia White’s “Women’s Cinema, World Cinema” Today’s globalized network of film festivals defines world cinema as a way to preserve film art and national cinemas against Hollywood domination. White’s new book, Women’s Cinema/ World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms looks at … Continue reading →
“Gilroy After the Black Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and the Post-Racial Imaginary?”
Friday, March 25 Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Friday, April 29 Postcolonial Melancholia Friday, May 13 Darker Than Blue: On…
