Join us for two talks on Friday January 24 by Anjuli Raza Kolb and Ronjaunee Chatterjee

1:00 - 2:15: "Black Boxes" (Anjuli Raza Kolb)
Break
2:45 - 4:00: "Singularity, Seriality, Sensation: The Case for Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White" (Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Anjuli Raza Kolb is a scholar of colonial and postcolonial literature and theory with particular research interests in the history of science and intellectual history, poetry and poetics, gender and sexuality studies, political theory and independence movements, the gothic and horror, and comparative literary studies. Her first scholarly monograph, Terror Epidemics: Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) lays out the literary and discursive history behind the ubiquitous figure of the "terrorism epidemic," locating the origin of contemporary global Islamophobia in the post-Mutiny British empire, and assessing the contemporary "epidemiological" approach to terrorism as a legacy of therapeutic empire.

Ronjaunee Chatterjee specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture, critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and Continental philosophy. Her current book project, “Thinking Singularity: Gender, Form, and Difference in the Nineteenth-Century,” offers a new account of the nineteenth-century’s liberal-capitalist development of modern subjectivity. Using literature to articulate a vocabulary of singularity to identify those kinds of individuation--previously unrecognized--that challenge a structural logic of opposition, binaries, and particulars,"Thinking Singularity" argues that singular subjectivity emerges from forms of relationality that rest on likeness and minimal difference, rather than readily discernible forms of difference.

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