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Indian writer (born 1949) For other uses, see R. Radhakrishnan (disambiguation). In this Indian name, the name Rajagopalan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Radhakrishnan.

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

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

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

Selected works

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

References

  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:
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