FMS Summer Institute
Director
Satya P. Mohanty

 

Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University and Director of the FMS Summer Institute. His current research interests include critical theory, the novel, social and cultural identity, ethics and aesthetics, and "comparative Indian literature."

 

His most recent publications include:

“The Dynamics of Literary Reference: Narrative Discourse and Social Ideology in Two 19th-Century Indian Novels” in Thematology: Literary Studies in India, edited by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (Kolkata [Calcutta]: Jadavpur University, 2004) [To download this essay as a pdf file, click here]

"Can Our Values Be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics," New Literary History (2001) [To download the first section as a pdf file, click here]

Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997) [To download the table of contents and the Preface as a pdf file, click here]

   

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