Rukmini Bhaya Nair Biography 
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a professor and currently a Professor at Humanities and Social Sciences department of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)IIT Delhi. Critical theorist and writer she is the author of several academic books and has been PI of a DST project on 'Language, Emotion and Culture'. She is currently leading another ICSSR project on 'The Capabilities Approach to Education 'Access, Equity and Quality'.
Rukmini Bhaya Nair received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1982 and is internationally recognised for her work in the areas of linguistics, cognition and literary theory. In 2006, Nair received a second honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is an eminent linguist, writer, award winning poet,and one of the most eminent critics of India. She won the First Prize in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society of India in collaboration with British Council. .Nair is known for being a trenchant critic of the Hindutva ideology and the religious and caste discrimination that it promotes.
Rukmini Nair is best known for her creative and critical writings. Her work is in educational courses at the best of universities such as Chicago, Toronto Kent, Oxford and Washington, and she takes pride that she writes poetry for the same reason that she does research in cognitive linguistics – to discover the limits of language. She is willing to keep writing despite being too busy with her career as her ambition is to continue to write and research.
Career
Rukmini Nair has delivered plenary addresses and invited lectures at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and at many foreign universities. These include Aarhus, Berkeley, Birmingham, Brussels, Cape Town, Colombo, Copenhagen, East Anglia, Emory, Hangzhou, Kula Lumpur, Linkoping, Los Angeles, Portsmouth, the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, the Federal & Catholic Universitys of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saarbrücken, Sorbonne, SOAS, London, Toronto, Trieste and Xinxiang.
Rukmini Nair was Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Stanford University, in 2005–2006Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityThe National University of Singapore The University of Washington at Seattle
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Updated: April 16, 2015
