Vilashini Cooppan
Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with scholarship in comparative and world literature, postcolonial studies, memory and affect theory; co-editor of Autotheories and contributor on autotheory's genealogies and decolonial perspectives.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 10min
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)
Vilashini Cooppan, UCSC literature professor exploring postcolonial memory and affect. Alex Brostoff, Georgetown scholar of transnational queer and autotheory studies. They map autotheory's hybrid blend of life writing and critical theory. They discuss plural genealogies, editing experimental writing, and autotheory’s political and reading practices.
Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 10min
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)
Vilashini Cooppan, professor of literature focused on postcolonial and gender theory, and Alex Brostoff, assistant professor working on trans, queer, and comparative literatures, discuss autotheory as a genre-bending practice. They explore its plural, performative forms. Conversations cover editorial choices, citational play, collaboration by correspondence, and autotheory’s political and reading practices.
