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(Comp Lit Luncheon) Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal) presents “Plastic Lines”

(Comp Lit Luncheon) Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal) presents “Plastic Lines”

Monday, September 16, 2024 12:15 pm
- 1:30 pm EDT
124 Sparks

Professor Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. An Alexander von Humboldt International Fellow, Ghosh has recently been elected and inducted as Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts for his outstanding contribution in the field of interdisciplinary studies. He has been invited as Tagore Professor 2024 at the Institute of South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

He has authored more than hundred papers in leading journals like, Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, SubStance. University of Toronto Quarterly, MLN, Comparative Education Review, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Symploke, Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Clio, American Book Review, the minnesota review and others & and has seventeen books to his name which include Thinking literature Across Continents (with J Hillis Miller, Duke University Press, 2016), Trans(in)fusion: reflections for Critical Thinking (London, Routledge, 2020), The Plastic Turn (Cornell UP, 2022), Plastic Tagore (Oxford UP, 2024) and others. He is completing a trilogy on plastic studies – the first was The Plastic Turn, the second book Plastic Figures is again forthcoming from Cornell University Press in 2025 and the third volume is called Plastic Arts. To know more about him you are welcome to look him up at http://www.ranjanghosh.in

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