In Suburbia: World Literature and the Semi-Periphery

Thursday 23 March 2017
5.30 pm

UCD Humanities Institute

Chaired by Dr. Sharae Deckard (UCD)

Funded by the European Research Council and supported by the UCD Humanities Institute.

Professor Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick)

Pablo Mukherjee is Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia (2013); Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English (2010); and Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime (2003). His research interests include imperial/colonial literatures and cultures; postcolonial theory and literatures; Victorian literature; crime fiction; travel writing; environmental theory and criticism; science fiction; and comparative and world literary systems.

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