Thursday, October 3, 2024 – 5pm, Foster Hall 103
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor, English Department, Yale
This talk will concern the author’s recent monograph, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. The book explores how historical readers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power. Taking these engagements seriously, this talk will argue, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read.