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About this event
Hear from Dr Varsha Panjwani as she shares her experience developing the introduction for the Oxford World Classics edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and how asking questions about Shakespeare's knowledge and connection to India, she found the answers became entangled with her own personal and historical journeys between India and Britain.
This is a Rosemary Mitchell Poetry Event, the first in a series of talks by prominent academics and poets curated by Leeds Trinity University.
About our speaker
Dr Varsha Panjwani is an alumna of Leeds Trinity University. She is the host and creator of the award-winning Women & Shakespeare podcast and the author of Podcasts and Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Her teaching and research focus on the ways in which Shakespeare is deployed in the service of diversity and how diversity, in turn, invigorates Shakespeare. Varsha has published on these topics in international journals including Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Studies, and in edited collections such as Shakespeare, Race and Performance; Shakespeare and Indian Cinema; and The Arden Research Handbook to Shakespeare and Adaptation.
Varsha is also the co-editor of Re-contextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West: Familiar Strangers (Bloomsbury, 2023) and was one of the four principal organizers of the multi-grant-winning 2016 conference and film festival, ‘Indian Shakespeares on Screen’ at the BFI and the Asia House in London.
When?
Monday 18 November, 7:00-10:00pm
Where?
Leeds Trinity University Main Campus, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, LS18 5HD
How to book:
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Further information:
For any queries, please contact Amina Alyal, (a.alyal@leedstrinity.ac.uk).