the Organization of Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (OGSCL)
is proud to announce the sixth event of
“National Identity in the Public Sphere”
Srirupa Roy and Michelle Stephens
Tuesday, 20 November at 6.30 PM in Herter 601
Srirupa Roy <srirupa@polsci.umass.edu
> is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania,
where she wrote a dissertation, titled “Divided We Stand: Diversity and National
Identity in India,” on the attempts of the Indian state to produce and institutionalize
definitions of national identity in the post-independence period. She has
written articles on religion, caste and ethnicity in modern Indian society,
including “Instituting Diversity: Official Nationalism in Post-Independence
India” that appeared in the Journal of South Asian Studies Religion, caste
and ethnicity in modern Indian society. She teaches courses on Nationalism
and Ethnic Identity. She also received the Five College Asian/Pacific/American
Studies Development Grants for the course, “South Asia: Nations, Migrations,
Diasporas” (Spring 2002 or Fall 2003).
Michelle Stephens <mstephen@mtholyoke.edu
> joined the faculty of the Mount Holyoke English department in January
1999. She teaches American, African American, and Caribbean literature and
she holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has taught
courses on Black Empire: Literature of the African Diaspora, American Modernism
and the New Social Movements, The Caribbean in American Literature and Culture
and Borders, Migrations, Myths: Introduction to American Studies, and is a
recipient of the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Development Grants
for the course “American Borders” (Fall 2001). She is currently working on
her book, Black Empire: The New Negro and the Re-routing of America, a study
of the writings of three black transnational intellectuals, Marcus Garvey,
Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, and their novel conceptions of both black
identity and American nationality. She has published pieces on Caribbean
and American popular culture, including her work on Bob Marley which appeared
in Cultural Studies and her forthcoming piece on calypso crooner Harry Belafonte.
She was born and raised in Jamaica and now lives in South Hadley.
Copies of all readings have been placed on reserve on the third floor
of the DuBois Library under COMPLIT 595A: Seminar–Cultural Studies under instructor
OGSCL.
John Hutnyk, “Adorno at Womad” (chapter 2) and “The Culture Industry and
the Globalization of Struggles” (conclusion), Critique of Exotica: Music,
Politics, and the Culture Industry (London: Pluto, 2000): 19–49 and 211–238.
Srirupa Roy,
“Nation and Institution: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Indian
Independence,” in Interventions: the International Journal of Postcolonial
Studies (2001).
Michelle A.
Stephens, “Babylon’s ‘Songs of Freedom’: The North American Music Industry,
the Legend of Bob Marley, and the Future of Reggae,” Cultural Studies
(April 1998).
Michelle A.
Stephens, “Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West
Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution,” American
Quarterly 50.3 (1998): 592–-608; also available online through Project
Muse at http://www.library.umass.edu/research/html/pmuse.html
This event is sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature-UMass
, Department of French and Italian Studies-UMass, Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures-UMass, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies-UMass,
Department of Communication-UMass, Department of English and Comparative Literature-Smith,
Department of English-UMass, Film Studies Program-Mt. Holyoke, Department
of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies-UMass, Department of Legal Studies-UMass,
Program in Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)-UMass, and the Asian
American Lecture Series.
For further information, please contact Anita Mannur, Beverly Weber,
Craig Sinclair, and Dale Hudson at
opdics@yahoo.com
or visit our web site at
www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/culturalstudies/
