Urmila Seshagiri is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee. The author of Race and the Modernist Imagination&nbsp;(Cornell, 2010), she is completing a book about the complex legacy of modernist aesthetics titled&nbsp;Still Shocking: Modernism and Fiction in the 21st Century.&nbsp;Her scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf’s memoir&nbsp;Sketch of the Past is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She is the Out of the Archives Editor for&nbsp;Feminist Modernist Studies.

Urmila Seshagiri

Language Is a Place: A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Purity

Biology, Destiny, Purity

The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Real America: On “The Lowland”

Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her short stories have most recently appeared in Air/Light, Alta, Midnight Breakfast, and The Massachusetts Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times’s Modern Love, Slate, Salon, and Catapult. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

Anita Felicelli

“The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri: Two Reviews

Urmila Seshagiri is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee. The author of Race and the Modernist Imagination&nbsp;(Cornell, 2010), she is completing a book about the complex legacy of modernist aesthetics titled&nbsp;Still Shocking: Modernism and Fiction in the 21st Century.&nbsp;Her scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf’s memoir&nbsp;Sketch of the Past is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She is the Out of the Archives Editor for&nbsp;Feminist Modernist Studies.

Urmila Seshagiri

Articles

Language Is a Place: A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri

Biology, Destiny, Purity

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Real America: On “The Lowland”

“The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri: Two Reviews