In my previous update on my summer research project for CASI, I provided a critical review of scholarship on Latin American Orientalism and Mexican literary representations of the Orient, particularly India. I sketched out an updated outline of my chapter that attended to the question of Orientalism in Latin America and its roots in the […]

Hello, everyone:   In my previous post for the CASI Student Blog, I described the ambit of my dissertation, Land and Revolution: Literatures in India and Latin America. I also outlined a summer research agenda to research and draft a chapter titled “Wayward Internationalisms Across India and Mexico.” This chapter examines the lives, travels, and writings of three historical […]

Hello, everyone! My name is Nico Millman, and I am a PhD Candidate in the English Department. My areas of interest include twentieth-century South Asian and Latin American literature, theories of the novel, postcolonial studies, and critical development studies. In Spring 2020, I designed and taught a Junior Research Seminar called “Global Detective Narratives,” which […]