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Srinivas Aravamudan
Srinivas Aravamudan (1962 – April 13, 2016) was an Indian-born American academic. He was a professor of English, Literature, and Romance Studies at Duke University, where he also served as dean of the humanities. He was widely recognized for his work on eighteenth-century British and French literature and postcolonial literature and theory. His publications included books and articles on novels, slavery, abolition, secularism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, climate change, and the anthropocene. Biography Aravamudan was born in 1962 in Madras and attended Loyola College, University of Madras. He held master's degrees from Purdue University and Cornell University and earned his PhD at Cornell. He taught at the University of Utah and the University of Washington before joining Duke's faculty in 2000. He was awarded an honorary degree by Middlebury College in April 2016. Academic career In 2000, Aravamudan received the Modern Language Association's prestigious prize for an outstan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. The campus spans over on three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham, and a marine lab in Beaufort. The West Campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele, an African American architect who graduated first in his class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design—incorporates Gothic architecture with the Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation, is adjacent to the Medical Center. East Campus, away, home to all first-years, contains Georgian-style architecture. The university administers two concurrent schools in Asia, Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature".About the MLA" ''mla.org'', Modern Language Association, 9 July 2008, Web, 25 April 2009. The organization includes over 25,000 members in 100 countries, primarily academic scholars, s, and s who study or teach lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mansong
Three-Fingered Jack a.k.a. Jack Mansong (died c. 1781), was the leader of a band of runaway slaves in the Colony of Jamaica in the eighteenth century. After the Jamaican Maroons signed treaties with the British colonial authorities in 1739 and 1740, many historians believed that they effectively prevented runaway slaves from forming independent communities in the mountainous forests of the island's interior. Ancoma However, a number of communities of runaways continued to thrive in the Blue Mountains in the decades that followed the 1740 treaty between the Windward Maroons and the British colonial authorities. The leader of one of those unofficial maroon communities of Free black people in Jamaica was an escaped slave named Ancoma. His community thrived in the forested interior of the eastern edge of the Blue Mountains in the eastern parish of what is now Saint Thomas Parish in the mid-1750s. In 1759, two women, one of them from an official Maroon community that had signed trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Earle (writer)
William Earle may refer to: *Bill Earle (1911-1983), Australian rules footballer *Billy Earle (1867–1946), American baseball player *William A. Earle (1919–1988), American philosopher *William Earle (athlete) (born 1941), Australian sprinter *William Earle (shipping), engineer and one of the founders in 1845 of Earle's Shipbuilding in Kingston upon Hull, England *William Earle (USS Merrimac), Acting Master of the US Civil War steamer USS Merrimac when it sank on February 15, 1865 *William Earle , fictional character from the 2005 film ''Batman Begins'' *Major General William Earle (soldier) (1833–1885), British Commander at the Battle of Kirbekan *William Rawlinson Earle (c.1703-1774), British Member of Parliament for Cricklade, Malmesbury and Newport, Isle of Wight *William Earle (MP) (1728-1774), British Member of Parliament for Cricklade *William Earle (Newfoundland politician) (1884-1968), Newfoundland politician *William Benson Earle (1740–1796), English philanthropist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reviews In History (journal)
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is a British educational organisation providing resources and training for historical researchers. It is part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London and is located at Senate House. The institute was founded in 1921 by A. F. Pollard. History Foundation The IHR was founded in 1921 by British historian Albert Pollard. Appointed Professor of Constitutional History at University College London in 1903, his inaugural address, a year later, argued for the need for a postgraduate school of historical research. With a generous and anonymous donation of £20,000 from Sir John Cecil Power in 1920 towards the founding of the institute, Pollard's dream was realised. The institute was formally opened by H. A. L. Fisher on 8 July 1921. The IHR was directly administered by the Senate of the University of London, rather than being part of one of the federal colleges. It was the first organisation to be administered under such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Pickering & Chatto is an imprint of Routledge which publishes in the humanities and social sciences, specializing in monographs, critical editions (works, diaries, correspondence) and thematic source collections. Pickering & Chatto's academic monographs have an international reputation and its critical editions and source collections are critically acclaimed. Pickering & Chatto is regarded as "the pre-eminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences". History The origins of the company can be traced back to William Pickering (1796–1854), who set up as an antiquarian bookseller and publisher in 1820. After his death, the business was carried on by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering. On his death, in 1878, it was purchased by Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), one of the founding partners of Chatto and Windus. By the early twentieth century Pickering & Chatto was solely concerned with antiquarian book selling. Lord William Rees-Mogg bought Pickering & Chatto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHOICE (journal)
Choice consists of the mental process of thinking involved with the process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them for action. Choice may also refer to: Mathematics * Binomial coefficient, a mathematical function describing number of possible selections of subsets ('seven choose two') * Axiom of choice Media Film and television * ''Choices'' (1986 film), a television film directed by David Lowell Rich * ''Choices'' (2021 film), an OTT Indian film * "Choices" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 1999 season 3 episode of the TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' * RTÉ Choice, an Irish digital radio station * BBC Choice, a defunct British digital television channel, replaced in 2003 by BBC Three * Choice TV, a New Zealand television station owned by Discovery New Zealand Music * Choice (group), a 1990s R&B girl group * Choice (rapper), American female rap artist * Choice, an alias for Laurent Garnier, a French techno music producer * ''Choice'', a 1983 al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Literature (journal)
A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school. In most of the world, a college may be a high school or secondary school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, a higher-education provider that does not have university status (often without its own degree-awarding powers), or a constituent part of a university. In the United States, a college may offer undergraduate programs – either as an independent institution or as the undergraduate program of a university – or it may be a residential college of a university or a community college, referring to (primarily public) higher education institutions that aim to provide affordable and accessible education, usually limited to two-year associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
