R. Radhakrishnan
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Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan | |
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| Born | 28 October 1949 Sirkali, Tamil Nadu |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Postcolonialism, Postmodernism |
Notable ideas | diasporic hybridity global unevenness |
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and is considered one of the leading postcolonial theorists and literary critics in the United States. He was born on 28 October 1949, in Sirkali, a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Radhakrishnan is also noted as a translator and poet of Tamil as well as a master of English and English literary criticism.[citation needed] He was initially educated in Madras and earned his PhD from Binghamton University.[citation needed]
References
External links
- R. Radhakrishnan page at UC Irvine site
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- American literary critics
- American male writers of Indian descent
- Tamil writers
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- University of California, Irvine faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- Tamil poets
- 1949 births
- Scholars of nationalism
- Living people
- American people of Indian Tamil descent
- Binghamton University alumni
- Binghamton University faculty
- University of Madras alumni
- University of Madras faculty
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- University of Michigan fellows
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