Event
Join us on April 2, 2025, for a co-sponsored event featuring Sameer Pandya, author of the novel Members Only and the forthcoming Our Beautiful Boys.
The book talk will be followed by a conversation with Professor Bakirathi Mani, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of English.
Sameer Pandya is the author of the novel Members Only, a finalist for the California Book Award and an NPR “Books We Love” of 2020, and the story collection The Blind Writer, longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. His cultural criticism has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Salon, and Sports Illustrated. A recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship, he is currently an Associate Professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Co-sponsors:
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania