Please join the English Graduate Student Council in welcoming Amitava Kumar, novelist, poet, journalist, filmmaker and Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College, as our esteemed guest speaker on March 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin M549. Professor Kumar will give a wide-ranging talk and read from his 2014 success, A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna, which ruminates on one of the world's oldest cities and capital of Bihar, India's poorest province. Email EGSC@colorado.edu for info.