Author Sameer Pandya in conversation with Terence Keel: A UCSB Reads 2021 Event

Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness. Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian-American Studies.

Sameer Pandya is Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies and author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship.

Terence Keel is Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics. He has written widely about American biomedical science, religion, law, and modern thought.