Peter Kalliney will give a lecture titled "African Literary Institutions and Cold War Diplomacy" on Monday, September 21st, from 1:00 - 2:30 PM, in 311 Denney. Following the lecture, Kalliney will lead a Graduate Student Workshop on "CLR James: Anticolonial Theorist, Marxist Intellectual, or Cold War Conscript?" from 3:00 - 5:00 PM in 316 Denney.
Kalliney is the William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. His research areas of specialty include Twentieth-Century British Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Literary Theory and Globalization, and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergece of Postcolonial Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (University of Virginia Press, 2007). His essays have appeard in MLQ, Research in African Literatures, and PMLA, among others. His is currently working on a booktitled Bandung Generation: Decolonization and Cold War Culture.
This event is sponsored by the Ohio State Department of English.
