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R. Radhakrishnan

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Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, born 1949[1]) is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.[2] He is a postcolonial theorist and literary critic.

Radhakrishnan earned his PhD in 1983 from Binghamton University.[3] He moved to UC Irvine from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2004–2005 academic year.[4]

Radhakrishnan is the 2020 winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the South Asian Literary Association.[5]

Selected works

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  • A Tamil prose reader: selections from contemporary Tamil prose (compiled with R. E. Asher, 1971)[6]
  • Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (1996)[7]
  • Theory in an Uneven World (2003)
  • Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory (2007)[8]
  • Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-diaspora (edited with Susan Koshy, 2008)[9]
  • History, the Human, and the World Between (2008)[10]
  • Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis (edited with Kailash C. Baral, 2009; 2nd ed., 2018)
  • A Said Dictionary (2012)[11]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-09-27
  2. ^ "Distinguished Professors". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan". UCI Faculty Profile System. University of California, Irvine. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Message from the Department Chair". E-Newsletter. UC Irvine Asian American Studies Department. Winter 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  5. ^ "R. Radhakrishnan awarded SALA Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship". UC Irvine School of Humanities. 22 January 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  6. ^ Reviews of A Tamil Prose Reader:
  7. ^ Review of Diasporic Mediations:
  8. ^ Reviews of Between Identity and Location:
  9. ^ Review of Transnational South Asians:
  10. ^ Reviews of History, the Human, and the World Between:
  11. ^ Reviews of A Said Dictionary: