Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan

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Chancellor's Professor, English
School of Humanities
Chancellor's 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
Phone: (949) 824-2942
Fax: (949) 824-2916
Email: rradhakr@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
159 Krieger Hall
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Critical Theory, Postcoloniality, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Cultural Critique, Nationalisms and Diasporas, Globalization, Ethnicity and Minority Discourse, Gender and Feminisms.
Websites
Academic Distinctions
Fulbright Fellowship, Visiting Fellowships at Cornell University, Rutgers University(New Brunswick), and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lily Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fellowships at the Institute for Advance Study in the Humanities at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Distinguished Dissertation Award: SUNY-Binghamton.
Research Abstract
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.

My Wikipedia site is: R. Radhakrishnan
Publications
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;

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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.
Edited special issue of the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT, "Speaking Truth to Power," Winter 2014.
Edited Special issue of the journal MODERN FICTION STUDIES, "Modernism and Politics," 2013.
Essays on World Literature, Posthumanism, the Anthropocene, and Edward Said in SYMPLOKE, BOUNDARY2, CRITICAL INQUIRY and PMLA, 2014-16.
Book chapters on Democracy, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Routledge and University of Toronto Press, 2013-2016.
Last updated
06/28/2015