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Following his public lecture at the Humanities Center, join D. Venkat Rao for a workshop seminar. Former SHC Fellow Radhika Koul, Assistant Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, will offer a response to his talk.
About the Speaker
D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, epic traditions, visual cultures, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures.
Rao studied at the Kakatiya University, Warangal, and the University of Kent at Canterbury. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He has taught at various universities in India and at the University of Washington. In addition to books in English and Telugu, he has published several articles in national and international journals. Rao's recent work includes India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference (Routledge, 2021); Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions: Towards a Liveable Learning (Springer, 2021); and Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018). Other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014), and In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy’s Intimate Enemy into Telugu (2005). Earlier he translated into English a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012, 2017). He has a full-length work on literary-cultural criticism in Telugu entitled Saamskritika Chaanakyaalu (2005). He is the editor of the Routledge book series on Critical Humanities Across Cultures.
Rao's forthcoming work is titled Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears: Of Sanskrit Reflective Traditions Today (Bloomsbury). He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary, cultural studies and the Sanskrit traditions as well as a research program under the rubric of Critical Humanities.
This event is open to all Stanford graduate students and to others by invitation. Please note that space is limited. Contact SHC Events Manager Eric Ortiz (erortiz@stanford.edu) with any questions.