Mita Choudhury
Biographic Data
| ID | 1094564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mita Choudhury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mita |
| FAMILY NAME | Choudhury |
| SIGNATURE | CHOUDHURY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7473-7839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fairness in Language Models Beyond English
With language models becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it has become essential to address their inequitable treatment of diverse demographic groups and factors. Most research on evaluating and mitigating fairness harms has been concentrated on English, while multilingual models and non-English languages have received comparatively little attention. In this paper, we survey different aspects of fairness in languages beyond English and multilingual…
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Emotions de Dieu
An Unlikely Pair
Between 1731 and 1764 unknown writer Nicolas Jouin eluded arrest and published fifteen satirical verses known as the sarcelades. The poems straddled the different areas of Jansenist political culture and the world of popular opinion and clandestine literature. Written in patois, the sarcelades featured the peasant Claude Fetu, who made ultramontane bishops, the Jesuits, and even the king the objects of derision and resentment. This character embo…
Gendered Models of Resistance
In the decades following the promulgation of the anti-Jansenist bull Unigenitus, scores of nuns and convents resisted the efforts of authorities to make them acquiesce to the Bull. Male Jansenist authors writing from a figurist perspective transformed this female dissent into the model for all forms of spiritual resistance against Unigenitus. Their gendered constructions represented a challenge to the church hierarchy, forging nuns into a politic…
A Betrayal of Trust
An examination of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French history indicates that the relationship between the Jesuits and Quietism was shaped by politics as well as by concerns of theological orthodoxy. During the late 1690s, the Jesuits championed François Fénelon accused of Quietism at the same time as they spearheaded an attack against Quietism in Burgundy, emphasizing crimes of spiritual incest or the abuse of clerical authority. Such ambi…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola
Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
Despotic Habits
Research Article| February 01 2000 Despotic Habits: The Critique of Power and Its Abuses in an Eighteenth-Century Convent Mita Choudhury Mita Choudhury Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (1): 33–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-1-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mita Choudhury; Despotic Habits: The Critique of Pow…
Cross-Cultural Performances
Gazing at His Seraglio
Toward the end of The Mogul Tale; or The Descent of the Balloon (premiere at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket: 6 July 1784), a brief commentary on stage business specifies that the apparatus for execution should be visible to the spectators, the executioners and guards are to be in attendance, and the victim is to be discovered handcuffed, by the wheel;' in other words, the scene is set for a cruel punishment at the fierce Mughal's court. The o…
Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama
Sheridan, Garrick, and a Colonial Gesture
When one thinks of imperial literature, the works of Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad immediately spring to mind; but the idea of an imperial or a colonial play-as I attempt to frame the construct here-seldom, if ever, conjures up such examples of high Georgian comedy as Sheridan's School for Scandal.' Providing an occasion for my discussion is a document that belongs to the obscure and marginalized realm of London's theatre history-…
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Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
Gazing at His Seraglio
Toward the end of The Mogul Tale; or The Descent of the Balloon (premiere at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket: 6 July 1784), a brief commentary on stage business specifies that the apparatus for execution should be visible to the spectators, the executioners and guards are to be in attendance, and the victim is to be discovered handcuffed, by the wheel;' in other words, the scene is set for a cruel punishment at the fierce Mughal's court. The o…
Sheridan, Garrick, and a Colonial Gesture
When one thinks of imperial literature, the works of Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad immediately spring to mind; but the idea of an imperial or a colonial play-as I attempt to frame the construct here-seldom, if ever, conjures up such examples of high Georgian comedy as Sheridan's School for Scandal.' Providing an occasion for my discussion is a document that belongs to the obscure and marginalized realm of London's theatre history-…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama
Sheridan, Garrick, and a Colonial Gesture
When one thinks of imperial literature, the works of Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad immediately spring to mind; but the idea of an imperial or a colonial play-as I attempt to frame the construct here-seldom, if ever, conjures up such examples of high Georgian comedy as Sheridan's School for Scandal.' Providing an occasion for my discussion is a document that belongs to the obscure and marginalized realm of London's theatre history-…
Gazing at His Seraglio
Toward the end of The Mogul Tale; or The Descent of the Balloon (premiere at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket: 6 July 1784), a brief commentary on stage business specifies that the apparatus for execution should be visible to the spectators, the executioners and guards are to be in attendance, and the victim is to be discovered handcuffed, by the wheel;' in other words, the scene is set for a cruel punishment at the fierce Mughal's court. The o…
Cross-Cultural Performances
Despotic Habits
Research Article| February 01 2000 Despotic Habits: The Critique of Power and Its Abuses in an Eighteenth-Century Convent Mita Choudhury Mita Choudhury Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (1): 33–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-1-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mita Choudhury; Despotic Habits: The Critique of Pow…
Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola
Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Gendered Models of Resistance
In the decades following the promulgation of the anti-Jansenist bull Unigenitus, scores of nuns and convents resisted the efforts of authorities to make them acquiesce to the Bull. Male Jansenist authors writing from a figurist perspective transformed this female dissent into the model for all forms of spiritual resistance against Unigenitus. Their gendered constructions represented a challenge to the church hierarchy, forging nuns into a politic…
A Betrayal of Trust
An examination of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French history indicates that the relationship between the Jesuits and Quietism was shaped by politics as well as by concerns of theological orthodoxy. During the late 1690s, the Jesuits championed François Fénelon accused of Quietism at the same time as they spearheaded an attack against Quietism in Burgundy, emphasizing crimes of spiritual incest or the abuse of clerical authority. Such ambi…
Introduction
This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called "Apology for Quietism." This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the "activist" Susan Sontag's attraction to the "quietist" Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the "activist" William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, w…
An Unlikely Pair
Between 1731 and 1764 unknown writer Nicolas Jouin eluded arrest and published fifteen satirical verses known as the sarcelades. The poems straddled the different areas of Jansenist political culture and the world of popular opinion and clandestine literature. Written in patois, the sarcelades featured the peasant Claude Fetu, who made ultramontane bishops, the Jesuits, and even the king the objects of derision and resentment. This character embo…
Emotions de Dieu
Fairness in Language Models Beyond English
With language models becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it has become essential to address their inequitable treatment of diverse demographic groups and factors. Most research on evaluating and mitigating fairness harms has been concentrated on English, while multilingual models and non-English languages have received comparatively little attention. In this paper, we survey different aspects of fairness in languages beyond English and multilingual…
Generative AI has a language problem
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