Department of English

• Wednesday, April 29, 2026 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

On Wednesday, April 29th, from 5-7pm, our very own Mursal Sidiqi will present their Work in Progress in the Faculty Lounge (FBH 135). In their own words, their dissertation "spans the eighteenth and nineteenth century to trace British technologies of national, racial, and gender formation as Britain first began to imagine the Afghan polity and the Afghan subject. Mursal’s work interweaves queer studies, empire studies, and translation studies to examine the entanglements of Afghan and British literary histories of sexuality." They will discuss a chapter titled “Staging the Afghan Beside the Horse (1811-1839).” The event is co-hosted by ResVic.