Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan

Professor, English School of Humanities
Professor, Comparative Literature School of Humanities
Affiliated with African American Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Theory Emphasis, and Core Faculty of the Ph.D. in Culture and Theory School of Humanities
Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1983, English

159 Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 2650

Phone: (949) 824-2942
Email: rradhakr@uci.edu

I am now completing a couple of booklength manuscripts; 1) EDWARD SAID: A CRITICAL DICTIONARY, contracted with Blackwell, and 2) a collection of essays, WHEN IS THE POLITICAL? Also in process are essays on 1) the ontological turn in current theory, 2) the politics of comparison, 3) democracy and its ideological ambivalences.

Fields of Interest:
Critical Theory, Postcoloniality, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Asian American Studies, Nationalisms and Diasporas, Globalization, Ethnicity and Minority Discourse, Gender and Feminisms.

Publications:

EDWARD W. SAID: A CRITICAL DICTIONARY, forthcoming (Blackwell, 2010).

THEORY AFTER DERRIDA, Co-edited with Kailash Baral, (Routledge India, 2009).

COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, THEORY, Co-edited with CT Indira, et al, (Pencraft India, 2009).

HISTORY, THE HUMAN, AND THE WORLD BETWEEN (Duke University Press, 2008).

TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIANS AND THE MAKING OF A NEO-DIASPORA, Co-edited with Susan Koshy, (Oxford University Press, 2008).

THEORY AS VARIATION, Edited, (Pencraft India, 2007).

BETWEEN IDENTITY AND LOCATION: THE POLITICS OF THEORY (Orient Longman India, 2007).

THEORY IN AN UNEVEN WORLD (Blackwell, 2003).

DIASPORIC MEDIATIONS: BETWEEN HOME AND LOCATION (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

Essays in Journals such as:

Social Text, New Literary History, Callaloo, PMLA, Jouvert, Positions, Boundary2, Cultural Critique, MELUS, Rethinking Marxism, Comparative Literature, Transition, Differences, Organization, Jouvert, Journal of Contemporary Thought, New Centennial Review, ADE, European Legacy;

and

Collections such as:

THEORIZING DIASPORA; THE PREOCCUPATION OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES; POSTMODERNISM/JAMESON/CRITIQUE; NATIONALISMS AND SEXUALITIES; INTELLECTUALS: AESTHETICS, ACADEMICS, POLITICS; FEMINISM AND INSTITUTIONS; VIEWS FROM THE BORDERCOUNTRY: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF RAYMOND WILLIAMS: THE NATURE AND CONTEXT OF MINORITY DISCOURSE; THEORY/PEDAGOGY/POLITICS; POSTCOLONIALISM MEETS ECONOMICS; THE DIFFERENCE WITHIN: FEMINISM AND CRITICAL THEORY; RETHINKING POSTCOLONIALITY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: RETHINKING MODERNITY; ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES: VIEWS FROM THE PERIPHERY; EDWARD SAID AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM: NGUGI IN THE AMERICAS: THE TEACHING OF AFRICAN LITERATURES.