home - contact - sitemap A National Resource Center for the Study of South Asia    University of Pennsylvania About SAC    Resources    Events    Announcements    K-12    Giving   PEOPLE    COLLOQUIUM & ACADEMIC EVENTS    MUSIC & ARTS    NEWSLETTER    ASK A QUESTION Faculty Biography:   Suvir Kaul Director of Kings College Program Fall 2006 Email: kaul@english.upenn.edu Office: Fisher-Bennett Hall 304 Telephone: (215) 573-2531   Suvir Kaul received his B. A. (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, and his Ph. D. from Cornell University. His first job was at the SGTB Khalsa College in Delhi; since then, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at Stanford University, and at the Jamia Milia Islamia as a Visiting Professor. He has also held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Canterbury at Kent and at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He teaches courses in Eighteenth-century British Literature, Contemporary South Asian Writing in English, and in Literary and Critical Theory. He has published two books, Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (University Press of Virginia, 2000; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001), and Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: Ideology and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992; Stanford University Press, 1992) and has edited a collection of essays entitled The Partitions of Memory: the afterlife of the division of India (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001; London: C. Hurst, 2001; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002). He has also coedited (with Ania Loomba, Antoinette Burton, Matti Bunzl and Jed Esty) an interdisciplinary volume entitled Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005; Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005).  Coursework English 393.401 The Literature and Historiography of National Trauma: Partition and South Asia - Spring 2006 English 046.001 Issues in English Drama: Dryden to Inchbald - Spring 2006 English 600.301 Proseminar: Intro to Theory & Criticism - Fall 2005 English 741.301 Poetry, Nation, Empire: English Poetry in the Late 17th & 18th Centuries - Spring 2005 English 042.001 18th Century Poetry: Poetics and the Public Sphere - Spring 2005 English 095.401 Introduction To Cultural Studies - Spring 2004 English 590.401 Critical Theory and the Profession: An Introduction to Graduate Study in Literature - Spring 2004 English 016.401 Literature and National Trauma - Fall 2003 English 040.301 Major British Poets: Literary Form, Social Function, and the Making of a National Tradition - Fall 2003 English 241.301 Topics in 18th Century Literature - Spring 2003 English 748.301 18th-Century British Literature and Modernity - Spring 2003   South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania 820 Williams Hall, 255 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Phone: 215-898-7475/4490, Fax: 215-573-2138; Email: haimanti@sas.upenn.edu Home | Contact | SAST | School of Arts & Sciences | University of Pennsylvania About SAC | Resources | Events | Announcements | Giving | Sitemap Colloquium & Academic Events | Arts & Music Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Copyright | Contact Webmaster © 2006 South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved | Web Design & Development by Altered Black