R. Radhakrishnan (literary critic)

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 ^[1] ) is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, in California, United States. ^[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

• 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

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:
   • Filipský, Jan (January 1980). Archiv Orientální. 48: 70–72. ProQuest   1304095109.
   • Marr, J. R. (June 1972). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 35 (2): 435. doi:10.1017/s0041977x00110249. JSTOR   614491. S2CID   162213941.
   • Panattoni, Emanuela (September–December 1971). East and West. 21 (3/4): 405–406. JSTOR   29755722.
   • Zvelebil, Kamil V. (January–March 1973). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 93 (1): 118–119. doi:10.2307/600558. JSTOR   600558.
7. Review of Diasporic Mediations:
   • Robbins, Bruce (December 1999). Passages. 1 (1): 122–124. doi:10.1163/15691675_001_01-09.
8. Reviews of Between Identity and Location:
   • Jain, Ravindra K. (January–April 2008). Sociological Bulletin. 57 (1): 141–143. doi:10.1177/0038022920080108. JSTOR   23634612. S2CID   220049458.
9. Review of Transnational South Asians:
   • Subramanian, Lakshmi (June 2013). Contributions to Indian Sociology. 47 (2): 317–321. doi:10.1177/0069966713483039. S2CID   148966931.
10. Reviews of History, the Human, and the World Between:
    • Battista, Christine M. (Summer 2009). Modern Fiction Studies. 55 (2): 391–394. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1610. JSTOR   26287033. S2CID   162143568.
    • Chen, Leilei (January 2010). "Review". Ariel. 41 (1).
    • Levin, Stephen M. (Spring 2009). MELUS. 34 (1): 230–232. JSTOR   20485366.
11. Reviews of A Said Dictionary:
    • Geall, David (March 2013). Reference Reviews. 27 (3): 24–25. doi:10.1108/09504121311308633.
    • Spencer, Robert (December 2013). Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 49 (5): 627–628. doi:10.1080/17449855.2013.813106. S2CID   161958609.