| Rutgers British Studies Project: Gauri Viswanathan |
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Monday, November 16 2009, 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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Gauri ViswanathanClass of 1933 Professor of the Humanities, Columbia UniversityBlavatsky and the Geopolitics of Secret KnowledgeMonday November 164:30 pm Teleconference RoomAlexander Library
Prof. Viswanathan has published widely on education, religion and culture; nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies; and the history of modern disciplines. She is the author of Masks of Conqest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief (1998) which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association and the Amanda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. She is the editor of Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (2001). She is currently working on modern occultism and the writing of alternative religious histories.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Analysis
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