UNH Series Hosts Discussion on Origins of the Novel

Contact: Erika Mantz
603-862-1567
UNH Media Relations

September 22, 2004



DURHAM, N.H. – Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English at Duke University will talk about “Spy Fiction and the Origins of the Novel,” Friday, Oct. 1, 2004, from noon to 1 p.m. in the English Department Lounge in Hamilton Smith Hall on the campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Sponsored by the UNH English Department’s Writers Series, the lecture is free and open to the public.

Aravamudan’s study, "Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804, won the first book prize of the Modern Language Association in 2000. He has also edited Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings of the British Romantic Period: Volume VI Fiction and his book Guru English: South Asian Religion in Cosmopolitan Contexts will be published in 2005.