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Book Discussion of 'Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India'

Add to Calendar Book Discussion of 'Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India'Seminar Room 2 - The Academic Wing
Lectures and Seminars
Location
Seminar Room 2 - The Academic Wing
Speakers
Professor Madhavi Menon (Ashoka University, India)
Cluster
South Asia Research Cluster
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Contact name
Nayanika Mathur
Contact email
nayanika.mathur@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Book discussion of Madhavi Menon's 'Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India' published by Speaking Tiger in 2018. Professor Menon will be in conversation with Dr Sneha Krishnan (Oxford). Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University in India. She works at the intersection of identity, desire, politics, and literature. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Toronto 2004), Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave 2008), and Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism (Minnesota 2015). She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke 2010).