Professor Dalleo was invited to participate in a roundtable about Critical University Studies organized by Anne Gulick (University of South Carolina) and Sam Pinto (Georgetown University) at the 2019 MLA in Chicago.
Connecting #feesmustfall to the struggle to remove monuments to racist pasts on campus, this session addressed the contemporary global university as it has been constructed through both political protest and literary form in the postcolonial world. Participants asked how the university has figured in the study of world literature and how it has been imagined in the postcolonial context, as an institution both beholden to and offering promise beyond the colonial infrastructure.
Other participants included Agata Szczeszak-Brewer (Wabash College), Coilin Parsons (Georgetown University), Matthew H. Brown (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Neville W. Hoad (U of Texas, Austin).