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]

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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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