SARC Event: Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
Friday 15 June, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Seminar Room 2, Wolfson College
Convener: Nayanika Mathur
Speakers: Madhavi Menon, Sneha Krishnan
Professor Menon will be in conversation with Dr Sneha Krishnan.
Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University in India. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Toronto 2004), Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave 2008), and Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism (Minnesota 2015). She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke 2010).
Sneha Krishnan is a Junior Research Fellow in Human Geography at St John’s College, Oxford with interests in South Asian Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies.