R. Radhakrishnan Explained

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

• 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]

Notes and References

1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-09-27
2. Web site: Distinguished Professors. University of California, Irvine. 2021-09-26.
3. Web site: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan . UCI Faculty Profile System. University of California, Irvine. June 28, 2015. 2021-09-26.
4. Web site: Message from the Department Chair. E-Newsletter. UC Irvine Asian American Studies Department. Winter 2005. 2021-09-26.
5. Web site: R. Radhakrishnan awarded SALA Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship. UC Irvine School of Humanities. January 22, 2020. 2021-09-26.
6. Reviews of A Tamil Prose Reader:
   • Filipský . Jan . January 1980 . . Archiv Orientální . 70–72 . none . 48.
   • Marr . J. R. . June 1972 . 10.1017/s0041977x00110249 . 2 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies . 614491 . 435 . none . 35. 162213941 .
   • Panattoni . Emanuela . September–December 1971 . 3/4 . East and West . 29755722 . 405–406 . none . 21.
   • Zvelebil . Kamil V. . January–March 1973 . 10.2307/600558 . 1 . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 600558 . 118–119 . none . 93.
7. Review of Diasporic Mediations:
   • Robbins . Bruce . December 1999 . 10.1163/15691675_001_01-09 . 1 . Passages . 122–124 . none . 1.
8. Reviews of Between Identity and Location:
   • Jain . Ravindra K. . January–April 2008 . 10.1177/0038022920080108 . 1 . Sociological Bulletin . 23634612 . 141–143 . none . 57. 220049458 .
9. Review of Transnational South Asians:
   • Subramanian . Lakshmi . June 2013 . 10.1177/0069966713483039 . 2 . Contributions to Indian Sociology . 317–321 . none . 47. 148966931 .
10. Reviews of History, the Human, and the World Between:
    • Battista . Christine M. . Summer 2009 . 2 . Modern Fiction Studies . 26287033 . 391–394 . none . 55. 10.1353/mfs.0.1610 . 162143568 .
    • Chen . Leilei . January 2010 . 1 . Ariel . Review . 41.
    • Levin . Stephen M. . Spring 2009 . 1 . MELUS . 20485366 . 230–232 . none . 34.
11. Reviews of A Said Dictionary:
    • Geall . David . March 2013 . 10.1108/09504121311308633 . 3 . Reference Reviews . 24–25 . none . 27.
    • Spencer . Robert . December 2013 . 10.1080/17449855.2013.813106 . 5 . Journal of Postcolonial Writing . 627–628 . none . 49. 161958609 .