Required Reading: Author Priyasha Mukhopadhyay in Conversation with Corinna Zeltsman on the Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire

Date: 24 October 2024
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

Join author and SoFCB Senior Fellow Priyasha Mukhopadhyay and interviewer Corinna Zeltsman for a conversation about Mukhopadhyay’s book Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton University Press, August 2024). Following this conversation, the audience will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session moderated by Holly Borham. This event is part of a series celebrating new books in critical bibliography and is sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB).

This event is free and open to the public; however, advanced registration is required. To learn more about this event and to register, click here.

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. Her scholarship addresses the literary history of the colonial world and practices of reading, primarily of South Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and the edited volume Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World, and she is a co-editor of The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices, a collection of essays that seeks to explore some of the ways in which books travel across national and linguistic borders.

Corinna Zeltsman is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. She is a historian of Modern Latin America, with a focus on printing and the book, political culture, and labor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. Her training as a letterpress printer continues to shape her research and teaching, which also explores Latin America’s media and material cultures. Her Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (UC Press, 2021) reconstructs the practical negotiations and discursive contests that surrounded print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution.

Holly Borham is Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin.