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

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...

. She is

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and a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, 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, bil ...

. Rajan is known for her research on

Romantic literature Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

post-Kantian philosophy German idealism was 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 Balachandra Rajan (24 March 1920 – 23 January 2009) was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics. Life and career Focusing particularly on the poetry of John Milton, Rajan was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of We ...

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 University of Western Ontario faculty University of Toronto alumni 1951 births University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Queen's University at Kingston faculty Canada Research Chairs Canadian philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada {{Canada-academic-bio-stub