The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2008-2009
The Postcolonial Studies Group presents:
Ben C. Baer Princeton University
Errant Marxism: London to Calcutta via Moscow (alternative routes possible) Feb 13th AT 2 P.M. CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409 All are welcome.
Ben C. Baer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Work in progress includes a book manuscript, Vanguard and Voice: Literary Modernism and the Colonial World, 1920s-1940s, which looks at the relations between the politics and poetics of “voice” in representations of the didactic mission of political vanguards. He has also translated Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s Hansuli Banker Upakatha (The Tale of Hansuli Turn, forthcoming Columbia University Press), which is one of the key novels of mid-twentieth century Bengali literature. Ben Baer has recently published essays in Rethinking Marxism, The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Bengali-language journal GangeoPatra. The CUNY Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The Postcolonial Studies Group is a chartered organization of the Doctoral Students' Council. Questions? Email Lily Saint at
[email protected].