Friday, March 25 at 4:00, LC 319. The 20th-21st-Century Colloquium presents: Priya Joshi, Associate Professor of English, Temple University. Professor Joshi received her Ph.D. with distinction in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1995. She is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). The book is a cultural history of the consumption and production of the English novel in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It has won numerous awards including the MLA First Book Prize; the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; and honorable mention for the SHARP Book History Prize. Professor Joshi is currently at work on another book-length project entitled Crime and Punishment: Nationalism and Public Fantasy in Bollywood Cinema in which she studies popular Hindi film and the fabrication of national identities in postcolonial India. The volume is something of a sequel to In Another Country in its exploration of popular forms, public cultures, and postcolonial modernities in South Asia.