R. 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.[2] He is a postcolonial theorist and literary critic.

For the politician, see R. Radhakrishnan (politician).
In this Indian name, the name Rajagopalan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Radhakrishnan.

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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Panattoni, Emanuela (September–December 1971). East and West. 21 (3/4): 405–406. JSTOR 29755722.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Zvelebil, Kamil V. (January–March 1973). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 93 (1): 118–119. doi:10.2307/600558. JSTOR 600558.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Review of Diasporic Mediations:
    • Robbins, Bruce (December 1999). Passages. 1 (1): 122–124. doi:10.1163/15691675_001_01-09.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Reviews of Between Identity and Location:
  9. Review of Transnational South Asians:
  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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chen, Leilei (January 2010). "Review". Ariel. 41 (1).
    • Levin, Stephen M. (Spring 2009). MELUS. 34 (1): 230–232. JSTOR 20485366.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. Reviews of A Said Dictionary:
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