Madras Institute of Development Studies
Cordially invites you for its
Annual MIDS Founder’s Day Lecture
on Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Prof. Susie Tharu, a well- known scholar, author and
formerly Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad,
will deliver the lecture “25 Years Later: Women Writing in India Reconsidered”.
The lecture will be held in the Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS,
and the function will start at 5.30 pm.
About Susie Tharu
Susie Tharu has been a part of
the Suabaltern Studies editorial since 1992. She served on the Board of Advisors
for The Feminist Press, where she was also a publisher. She has taught in the
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi and in Kanpur. Most recently, she founded Stree Shakti Sanghatana (SSS)
and Anveshi, two women’s activist groups. She edited two volumes of dossier on
Dalit writings from South India that focus on the resurgence of Dalit politics
in the 1990s.
Tharu is a professor at the
Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages. She has been employed
since 1973, serving as an English Literature Teacher, a Professor of English
Literature, and a Coordinator/Professor for the School of Critical Humanities.
No comments:
Post a Comment