Center for Humanities Research- Presentation by Director Candidate Alok Yadav (Associate Professor, English) [hybrid]

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Horizon Hall 6000-Dean's conference room

Inaugural CHR Director Alison Landsberg (Professor, History and Art History; Cultural Studies) will be stepping down from the directorship at the end of this academic year, after a successful three year term, and an additional, extended year of service. 

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Please join the CHR for a special presentation by Alok Yadav, who is a candidate for a three year term of Director of the CHR beginning in 2024. 

This event will be hybrid. If you'll be joining virtually, please watch for a link in our newsletter OR contact chr@gmu.edu to receive a link directly.

 

Prior involvement with the CHR:

• search committee for associate director of the CHR, 2020-21
• steering committee, 2021-present
• gave a talk in Feb. 2021 as part of undergrad workshop "What is Humanities Research" (participants were awarded a Mason micro credential in the form of a Humanities Scholar Badge for their completion of the four-part workshop)
• hosted book lunch and discussion with Michael Malouf and Sam Lebovic in March 2023
• introduced Seyla Benhabib as keynote speaker at CHR symposium in April 2023

Bio:

Alok Yadav (Associate Professor, English) teaches courses on Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial and World Literature, such as ENGH 333 (British Novel of the Eighteenth Century), Engh 330 (The Augustan Age), ENGH 331 (The Age of Sensibility), ENGH 366 (The Idea of a World Literature) and special topics courses on the African and South Asian Novel and on Empire and English Literature, as well as core courses such as ENGH 500 (Research in English), ENGH 305 (Dimensions of Writing and Literature), and ENGH 302 (Advanced Composition). He received his PhD from Cornell University, and taught at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago before joining the English Department at George Mason. He is the author of Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2004) and of the digital project Anthologies of African American Writing (soft launch 2021), and has published essays and reviews on issues of nationalism, empire, eighteenth-century British literary culture, and fictionality in Clio, Criticism, Cultural Critique, ELH, Literature Compass, Modern Philology, Novel, and Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research. 

He is currently working on a digital project on anthologies of African American literature (enumerative bibliography, documentation of covers, index of contents, and reception history), as well as on a book on Kipling's Kim and political criticism of literature, and has a chapter on "Fiction, Belief, and Postcolonial Criticism" forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief (2024).