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Notes on contributor
Auritro Majumder is Assistant Professor of English at University of Houston, where he is the inaugural recipient of the William Lee Pryor College Professorship in English for 2018–2019. His research interests include India and diasporic Indian studies, especially caste & race, vernacular-language bhasha literatures, nineteenth and twentieth century realism and modernism, literary theory, and intellectual history. His work has appeared in journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Interventions, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Mediations, Research in African Literatures, and South Asian Review. Current book-length projects include a monograph, World Literature and the Periphery, and a co-edited anthology in two volumes, The Cold War in South Asia. Majumder has served as a jurist for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, and an international reviewer for Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub Visiting Fellowship.
Notes
1 Cf. Lukács (Citation1971). For a recent statement on the importance of historicism for Bakhtin, see Cole (Citation2014).