The Victorians at Decolonization: Lecture by Nasser Mufti

Nasser Mufti is Associate Professor and Associate Head of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His research brings together nineteenth-century British and postcolonial literatures, paying particular attention to literary approaches to the study of nationalism. Dr. Mufti is the author of Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern, 2018), which won the 2019 Gustave O. Arlt Award and was the runner-up for the 2020 Sonja Rudikoff First Book Prize, and, among many articles, “Hating Victorian Studies Properly.” His current book project is tentatively entitled “Britain’s Nineteenth Century: 1963–64.”

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Park Hall Library. This event is sponsored by the Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund.

This event is free and open to the public.