Reading, 6:00 pm. Reception to follow. Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge, Alston (Agnes Scott College)

Professor of English at Emory University, Deepika Bahri specializes in postcolonial and world literature, Frankfurt School critical theory, race, culture, postcolonial theory, political aesthetics and philosophical discourses of utopia and the good life. She has secondary interests in human health. She is director of the interdisciplinary program in Global and Postcolonial Studies.Her publications include Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2017); Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2003); 2 edited books; and over 30 articles and chapters, most recently “Hybridity Redux” (PMLA). She is the curator of the academic exhibition on Salman Rushdie and her current project, Anger, a Modern Biography, explores the relationship of emotions, justice, and the good life in the public sphere.