R. Radhakrishnan

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^[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]