20th Century

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Davinder Bhowmik
Associate Professor
Jennifer Dubrow
Associate Professor
Sravanthi Kollu
Assistant Professor
Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla Endowed Chair in Telugu

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Related Research

Dubrow, Jennifer. "Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story," in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, edited by Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024): 618-633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.33. Volume is Winner of the 2025 René Wellek Prize for Best Edited Collection, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).
Dubrow, Jennifer. Review of Megan Robb, Print & the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, & Urban Life in Colonial India, The American Historical Review 128:3 (2023), pp. 1428-1429.
Nazry Bahrawi. "Grime to Shine: The Gentrification of Singapore's Vernacular Literature in Translation." Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia, edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsari and Vicente L. Rafael, Routledge, Jul 2023, pp.165-182.
Nazry Bahrawi. "Indonesia’s 'Sastra Profetik' As Decolonial Literary Theory". Islam and New Directions in World Literature, edited by Sarah R. bin Tyeer and Claire Gallien, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 328-356.
Kollu, Sravanthi. "Found Objects: From Colonial Libraries to Postcolonial Archives." Maidaanam, January 2022. https://maidaanam.com/found-objects-from-colonial-libraries-to-postcolonial-archives/
Mack, E. 2022. Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.116
Cho, Heekyoung. 2021. “World Literature as Process and Relation: East Asia’s Russia and Translation.” In The Cambridge History of World Literature, edited by Debjani Ganguly, 566-584. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Dubrow, Jennifer. Review of Neetu Khanna, The Visceral Logics of Decolonization, Critical Inquiry (2021). https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jennifer_dubrow_reviews_the_visceral_logics_of_decolonization/
Cho, Heekyoung. 2019. Review of Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists, by Kim Chul. Translated by Yoon Hye-Joon. Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 2 (May): 460-461.
Dubrow, Jennifer. "The Aesthetics of the Fragment: Progressivism and Literary Modernism in the Work of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55, no. 5 (2019): 589-601. DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2019.1635846.