French and Francophone Studies,
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies,
Arts and Letters Teaching Beyond the Classroom
and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
are proud to present
Literature and Activism
The Challenges of Representing
the Impoverished Immigrant Other
The Indian-born French writer Shumona Sinha
will discuss her award-winning novels Assommons les pauvres ! and Calcutta
with a focus on immigration, translation, and minorities and poverty in France