Dates
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Times
5pm - 6.30pm
Location
Holywell Music Room
Summary
This panel discussion with Q&A will be chaired by Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literature and Tutorial Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford and Ato Quayson, 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, Stanford University. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, an Open Access collaborative volume edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee, addresses 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, Ankhi and Ato will be joined by Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki (English Language and Literature, 2019), Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Warwick; Dr Sloan Mahone, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Oxford; and William Ghosh, Associate Professor World Literature, University of Oxford. They will 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.
