Dates
22 January 2025
Times
5 - 6.30pm
Location
Holywell Music Room
Summary
Panel discussion with Q&A, chaired by co-editors of 'Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum', Profs Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee.
Wadham for the World: Decolonizing the Curriculum
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, an Open Access collaborative volume edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee, aims to address issues of curriculum diversification and change from a global perspective.
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English literary curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives, with evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas. In this panel discussion we examine the complete overhaul such a project proposes for the study of English literature - and how English studies, the humanities, and the modern, international university can be reconnected to issues of racial and social justice.
Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford; Ato Quayson, is the Jean G and Morris M Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature, and Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Stanford University.