POSTPONED - English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Pablo Mukherjee

In brief

Date - 5 April 2024

Venue - Room LG.11, 40 George Square

Speaker - Professor Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford)

Chair - Dr Sourit Bhattacharya (University of Edinburgh)

Title - The Many Futures of Postcolonial Climate Fiction

Please note - this event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled for the autumn semester of the 2024-25 academic year. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused.

About the speaker

Pablo Mukherjee grew up in Kolkata, India, and has worked, studied and taught there and the UK. He teaches and researches on imperialism and colonialism, postcolonial theory and literatures, environmental humanities and world literatures.

He has written five monographs - Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (2010), Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Cultures (2013), (with WReC) Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (2015), and Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India (2020: Winner of SFRA Best Book Award, 2021). He is currently developing a project on anti-colonial world literatures.

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