Office Location: 325 Allen, 208 Franklin Center
Office Phone: 919-684-2640, 919-668-0337
Email Address: srinivas@duke.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 4:00pm - 6:00pm (Allen 325)

Education and Interests:

PhD, Cornell University

British Literature; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Literature

Srinivas Aravamudan gained his PhD at Cornell University and has taught at the University of Utah, and at the University of Washington. He joined the Duke English Department in the Fall of 2000. He specializes in eighteenth century British and French literature and in postcolonial literature and theory. He is the author of essays in Diacritics, ELH, Social Text, Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Anthropological Forum, South Atlantic Quarterly and other venues. His study, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (1999, Duke University Press) won the outstanding first book prize of the Modern Language Association in 2000. He has also edited Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings of the British Romantic Period: Volume VI Fiction (1999, Pickering and Chatto). His book, Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language was published by Princeton University Press in January 2006, and republished by Penguin India in 2007. He is working on two book-length studies, one on the eighteenth-century French and British oriental tale, and the other on sovereignty and anachronism. His edition of William Earle's antislavery romance, entitled Obi: or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack appeared in 2005 with Broadview Press.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. "Hobbes and America." Postcolonial Approaches to the Enlightenment. Ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa. Oxford University Press, Spring, 2009.
2. "Talking Jewels and Other Oriental Seductions." Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Spring (Winter, 2008)
3. "The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights." The Arabian Nights After Three Hundred Years. Ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Saree Makdisi. Oxford University Press, Winter, 2008.
4.  Review of Ros Ballaster, Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785.  Modern Language Quarterly 68.2 (Summer, 2008).
5. "Commerce, Adventure, and Empire." Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge University Press, Winter, 2008.

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