Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, born 1949) is Distinguished Professor of English and

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theorist and literary critic. Radhakrishnan earned his PhD in 1983 from

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. He moved to UC Irvine from the

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in the 2004–2005 academic year. Radhakrishnan is the 2020 winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the South Asian Literary Association.

Selected works

*''A Tamil prose reader: selections from contemporary Tamil prose'' (compiled with R. E. Asher, 1971) *''Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location'' (1996) *''Theory in an Uneven World'' (2003) *''Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory'' (2007) *''Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-diaspora'' (edited with Susan Koshy, 2008) *''History, the Human, and the World Between'' (2008) *''Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis'' (edited with Kailash C. Baral, 2009; 2nd ed., 2018) *''A Said Dictionary'' (2012)Reviews of ''A Said Dictionary'': * *

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