
The 2017-18 Kane Lecture, "If This Were a Manifesto for Postcolonial Thinking," will be delivered by Leela Gandhi, John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. Professor Gandhi is a literary and cultural theorist whose research and teaching focus on transnational literatures, postcolonial theory and ethics, and the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Her books include The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship (Duke University Press, 2006), Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Columbia University Press, 1998).