Meghna Sapui
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Meghna Sapui
@meghnasapui.bsky.social
I write and teach about 19th century literature, empire, race, foodways, & ecology. Postdoc at Michigan SoF & Asst. Prof of English at U Michigan. She/her.
https://www.meghnasapui.com/

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So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at #NAVSA2025
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Fab work here from Rachel Winchcombe, @daniellealesi.bsky.social, Jack Bouchard, Amanda Herbert, @juliafine.bsky.social, @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Ilaria Berti, and Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez.
February 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Thanks to @raherrmann.bsky.social for inviting me to guest edit this special issue of Global Food History, "Empires of Disgust": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...
Global Food History
Empires of Disgust. Volume 11, Issue 1 of Global Food History
www.tandfonline.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.
January 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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New issue alert!
66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.
January 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Patrick & I would be so grateful if ppl would circulate this to their smartest + most interesting academic friends. We are excited to welcome everybody to DC 🙏💙
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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@meghnasapui.bsky.social compares Alice Perrin's "The Biscobra," first published in 1894 then again in 1901, for its distinct uses of the titular biscobra as "a racialized metric of scientific knowledge and a potent metaphor for the imperial gothic." Read here: jvc.oup.com/2022/06/03/t...
March 8, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Ann Arbor is beautiful in September 🍃Also, hello in this new place!!
September 24, 2023 at 6:14 PM