Goutam Piduri
Tagline:PhD Candidate at Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Bio
Goutam Piduri is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Brown University. He is interested in non-acquisitive forms of imperialist thought and style. His dissertation project focuses on the 17th century, inquiring into the mechanisms by which non-possession — a cultivated indifference to material goods — is allied to early imperialist thought. To this end, he reads a range of early modern texts to excavate a counter-intuitive relationship between non-possession and empire. He also works on 20th-century adaptations of Shakespeare in the Telugu language. He translates from Telugu, and his translations have appeared in Asymptote and Denver Quarterly. His academic work is forthcoming in Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare and Adaptation.
Education
PhD
from: 2018, until: presentField of study:EnglishSchool:Brown UniversityLocation:Providence, RI
DescriptionDissertation- Owning Renunciation: Studies in the Authority of Non-Possession
Diploma of Advanced Study and Research
from: 2017, until: 2018Field of study:EnglishSchool:Ashoka UniversityLocation:Sonepat, Haryana
DescriptionA one-year postgraduate program intended to replace the "senior year" of a four-year BA degree.
Thesis: The Specter of the Maternal in Hamlet and Chivaraku Migiledi
Bachelor of Arts
from: 2014, until: 2017Field of study:EnglishSchool:Ashoka UniversityLocation:Sonepat, Haryana
Research Interests
- Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Adaptation and Translation Studies
Fellowships, Certificates, and Awards
Longlisted, Mozhi Translation Prize 2023
date: 2023-12-06Issuer:Mozhi
Description:For Translated Short Fiction in an Indian Language
Graduate Fellowship
date: 2023-09-01Issuer:Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Writing Center Fellowship (declined)
date: 2023-09-01Issuer:Sheridan Center for Teaching, Brown University
NEH Summer Institute: Global Geographies of Knowledge in Early Modern Spaces, 1400-1800
date: 2023-06-25Issuer:National Endowment for the Humanities
Folger Shakespeare Library Seminar: Researching and Writing the Early Modern Dissertation
date: 2022-09-01Issuer:Folger Shakespeare Library
Teaching Certificate I
date: 2022-09-01Issuer:Sheridan Center for Teaching, Brown University
Academic Excellence Award
date: 2018-05-15Issuer:Ashoka University English Department
Publications
The World of Woman Arises (To Work): Gundamma Katha reads Taming of the Shrew
Journal ArticlePublisher:Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare and AdaptationDate:unpublishedAuthors:Goutam Piduri"Snake"
TranslationPublisher:Denver Quarterly, 57.2Date:2023Authors:Description:Translation from the Telugu
"Waiting for Bhagavantam"
TranslationPublisher:Asymptote Journal, Summer 2020Date:2020Authors:TripuraDescription:Translation from the Telugu
"In the Hotel"
TranslationPublisher:Asymptote Journal Special FeatureDate:2019Authors:TripuraDescription:Translation from the Telugu
Selected Conference Presentations
Imperious Godly Beggars: Fakirs, Brahmins, and Early Modern Orientalism
Date: Apr 2024
Event name: Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Conference .Location: Philadelphia, PA .
Description:Seminar: Early Modern Geographies of Race
"Good Texts: Nationalist Value in Dryden and Aurobindo's Shakespeare Criticism"
Date: Mar 2024
Event name: Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Conference .Location: Chicago, IL .
Teaching Early Modern Literature Contrapuntally
Date: Jan 2024
Event name: Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference .Location: Philadelphia, PA .
Nobody Cares How Great: Shakespeare's Canonicity in Gundamma Katha
Date: Mar 2020
Event name: Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference .Location: Boston, MA .
Purity and Power: Literary Interventions in Logics of Heirarchy
Date: Mar 2020
Event name: Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Conference .Location: Boston, MA .
Description:Session Organizer
Teaching Experience
Writing War
From: 2023, Until: 2023
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Shakespeare, Love, and Friendship
From: 2022, Until: 2022
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Guest Lecture as TA: King Lear, Act 5: What Does Edmund Want?Killing Shakespeare: Three Plays and their Afterlives
From: 2021, Until: 2021
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Instructor of Record
Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay
From: 2020, Until: 2020
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Instructor of Record
Shakespeare, Love, and Friendship
From: 2020, Until: 2020
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Guest Lecture: Othello, Acts 4 & 5Love Stories
From: 2019, Until: 2019
Organization:Brown UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Masala Shakespeare
From: 2018, Until: 2018
Organization:Ashoka UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Literary Theory
From: 2017, Until: 2017
Organization:Ashoka UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Forms of Literature
From: 2017, Until: 2017
Organization:Ashoka UniversityField:English
Description:Teaching Assistant
Guest Lecture: Paradise Lost, Book IX: The Problem of Free Will
Affiliations
Member
from: 2023, until: presentOrganization:Shakespeare Association of America
Member
from: 2018, until: presentOrganization:Modern Language Association
Member
from: 2022, until: presentOrganization:Renaissance Society of America