Topic Title: The ‘Short Story’- A Reappraisal
This talk will provide an insight into the literary genre of the short story with an emphasis on its structure and technique of storytelling. As humanities scholarship and pedagogy are grounded in stories of human cultural and creative endeavors, it is significant to explore how the reading and writing of short stories have helped re-define contemporary humanities research and teaching. With a firm focus on the 20th and 21st-century literature, the talk will discuss myriad formats of storytelling techniques while outlining the intense, even disruptive impacts that such approaches have already exercised on humanities scholarship.
The broader aim of the talk would be to illustrate the irresistible capacity and potential of storytelling to foster rich interdisciplinary conversations across the earliest traditions of orality and the more contemporary digital mode(s) of storytelling.
Brief Bio of Speaker
Dr. Ananya Ghoshal is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Indore. Ananya received her doctorate from the Department of English Literature at the English and Foreign Languages University (formerly CIEFL), Hyderabad on the influence of music in postcolonial literature. Her pre-doctoral research was conducted in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. Her primary areas of interest include Word and Music Studies, Narratives of the Anthropocene, Performance Studies, Digital Humanities, and Visual Culture.
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Date: 20th April 2020
Time: 2:00 PM