Tilottama Rajan (born 1951) is a Canadian scholar and Distinguished University Professor at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

. She is

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

and a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

. Rajan is known for her research on

Romantic literature In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children, the isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for nature. Furthermore, several ...

post-Kantian philosophy German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

and contemporary theory. She is the daughter of Balachandra Rajan.

Books

* ''Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism'', Cornell University Press, 1980 * ''The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice'', Cornell University Press, 1990 * ''Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard'', Stanford University Press, 2002 * ''Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

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Tilottama Rajan at the University of Western Ontario
Living people Canadian academics of English literature Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario University of Toronto alumni 1951 births University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston Canada Research Chairs 20th-century Canadian philosophers 21st-century Canadian philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada {{Canada-academic-bio-stub