The 8th Symposium in the ‘Literary Activism Series

The Writer-Critic and Literary Studies

A two-day symposium presented by the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, organised in collaboration with Ashoka University

Detailed break up of the symposium:

Speakers include Vidyan Ravinthiran, Associate Professor of English Literature, Harvard University; and author of two collections of verse; Jane Goldman, poet and academic, Reader, School of Critical Studies, Glasgow University, and founding General Editor, Cambridge University Press Edition of Virginia Woolf's works; Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree, a work of nonfiction, Missing: A Novel, My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories, and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University; Ashutosh Bharadwaj, writer of various forms of prose, from conflict reporting and investigative journalism to fiction & literary criticism; Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor of Cultural Studies and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, writer and poet; Martin Crowley, Professor of Modern French Thought and Culture, University of Cambridge; Rita Kothari, Professor of English and Director, Centre for Translation, Ashoka University; Michel Chaouli, teaches literature and philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington; author of Thinking With Kant’s Critique of Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2017); Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, poet, essayist, and musician; Professor of Creative Writing and Director, Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. He conceptualises the 'literary activism' symposia; Lisa Borst, web editor of n+1 magazine; and Matthew Beaumont, Professor of English Literature, University College London, and author of several books, including Nightwalking (2015) and The Walker (2020).