Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London. After earning an undergraduate degree in Hindi at Venice University and living in Delhi, she completed her PhD at SOAS. She taught at the University of Cambridge and SOAS and held visiting positions at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a regional editor of the Murty Classical Library of India, and an editor of the Cambridge Studies in World Literature series.

Orsini's book is a major intervention in the current conversation on world literature. She makes a powerful argument for a different approach that mediates between cosmopolitanism and vernacularity, between script and orality, and focuses on forms of transmission which cannot be reduced to translation. An outstanding achievement.

Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London. After earning an undergraduate degree in Hindi at Venice University and living in Delhi, she completed her PhD at SOAS. She taught at the University of Cambridge and SOAS and held visiting positions at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a regional editor of the Murty Classical Library of India, and an editor of the Cambridge Studies in World Literature series.

Orsini's book is a major intervention in the current conversation on world literature. She makes a powerful argument for a different approach that mediates between cosmopolitanism and vernacularity, between script and orality, and focuses on forms of transmission which cannot be reduced to translation. An outstanding achievement.

Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London. After earning an undergraduate degree in Hindi at Venice University and living in Delhi, she completed her PhD at SOAS. She taught at the University of Cambridge and SOAS and held visiting positions at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a regional editor of the Murty Classical Library of India, and an editor of the Cambridge Studies in World Literature series.

Orsini's book is a major intervention in the current conversation on world literature. She makes a powerful argument for a different approach that mediates between cosmopolitanism and vernacularity, between script and orality, and focuses on forms of transmission which cannot be reduced to translation. An outstanding achievement.