R. Radhakrishnan Biography 
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan is one of the leading postcolonial theorists and literary critics of US. He is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is also popular as a translator and poet of Tamil as well as a master of English and English literary criticism. He took his initial education from Chennai and later took PhD from Binghamton University. He has served as a professor in English of numerous Indian and foreign universities like University of California - Irvine, Madras Christian College - Madras University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also been honoured with several fellowships from different universities.
Rajagopalan was born on October 28, 1949 in Sirkali, Tamil Nadu. He took B.A. Economics, Madras University, Madras in the year 1969 followed by MA from same university. He completed Ph.D. in English from State University of New York Binghamton in the year 1983. Later he worked as professor on different subjects in many universities. His subjects include Ideology, Text and Representation, Contemporary Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Nationalism and Postcoloniality, Literature and many more. He has edited many journals like Desh Vidhesh and edited books like Theory as Variation, Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora and Theory after Derrida.
He is a noted author also and has published many books including many translation works. English-Tamil translation works include - Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory, Some People in Some Situations and a few poems. He has published several poems in Indian journals and magazines also. A few of his published books include - Theory in an Uneven World, Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location and History, the Human, and the World.
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Updated: January 31, 2014
