Publications of Srinivas Aravamudan

Books

  1.  Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  2. S. Aravamudan. Sovereignty and Anachronism.  Forthcoming.
  3. S. Aravamudan. An Edition of Hector MacNeill's The Life and Travels of Charles Macpherson.  Forthcoming.
  4.  Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. Princeton UP, January, 2006. (Republished by Penguin India, Fall 2007)
  5.  Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Duke UP, May, 1999.

Edited

  1. S. Aravamudan. Special issue on "War". PMLA 124.5 (October, 2009): 400.
  2.  William Earle's Obi or the History of Three-Fingered Jack. Broadview Literary Texts,  July, 2005
  3.  Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period. Literary Forms.Vol. 6,  Pickering and Chatto, May 1999.

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. S. Aravamudan. "The Character of the University." Boundary 2 37.1 (Winter, 2010): 23-55.
  2. S. Aravamudan. "Foreword." Black Mirror/Espejo Negro Ed. Pedro Lasch. Duke University Press, (2010): 2-5.
  3. S. Aravamudan. "What Kind Of A Story Is This?." PMLA: Lead Essay to MLA Approaches to Teaching Oroonoko Modern Language Association, (2010)
  4. S. Aravamudan. "Introduction: Perpetual War." PMLA; War Ed. Srinivas Aravamudan and Diana Taylor. 124.5 (October, 2009): 1505-14.
  5. "Hobbes and America." The Postcolonial Enlightenment. Ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa. Oxford University Press, Spring, 2009. 37-70.
  6. S. Aravamudan. "Rogue States and Emergent Disciplines." States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies Ed. Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman. University of North Carolina Press, (2009): 17-35.
  7. "Talking Jewels and Other Oriental Seductions." Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Spring (Winter, 2008)
  8. "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.
  9. "Defoe, Commerce, Adventure, and Empire." Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge University Press, Winter, 2008.
  10. "The Teleopoiesis of Singularity." PMLA 123.1 (January, 2008)
  11. (with Ranjana Khanna and Fredric Jameson). "Final Interview." Jameson on Jameson. Ed. Ian Buchanan. Duke University Press, December, 2007.
  12. "Orientalism." The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan and Nancy Armstrong.  January, 2007.
  13. "Subjects/Sovereigns/Rogues." Eighteenth-Century Studies 40.3 (Spring, 2007): 457-65.
  14. "East and West Indies: Comparative Misapprehensions." Anthropological Forum 16.3 (November, 2006): 291-309.
  15. "Sovereignty: Between Embodiment and Detranscendentalization." Texas International Law Journal 41.3 (Summer, 2006): 427-46.
  16. "Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel." Blackwell's The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Companion to Literature and Culture. Ed. Paul Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia.  November, 2005. 48-74.
  17. "The Unity of the Representer: Reading Leviathan Against the Grain." South Atlantic Quarterly Ed. Alberto Moreiras. 104.4 (August, 2005): 631-53.
  18. "Carl Schmitt's Nomos of the Earth: Four Corollaries." South Atlantic Quarterly Ed. William Rasch. 104.2 (March, 2005): 228-36.
  19. "The Colonial Logic of Late Romanticism." South Atlantic Quarterly Ed. Ian Baucom.  (2003)  special issue on the Afterlives of Romanticism
  20. "Ground Zero, or the Implosion of Church and State." Dissent from the Homeland: Essays on September 11. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Stanley Hauerwas. Duke UP, 2003.
  21. "Progress Through Violence or Progress From Violence: Interpreting ambivalences of the Histoire des deux Indes." Progress and Violence in the Enlightenment. Ed. D. Dawson and V. Cossy. Champion, 2001. 
  22. "Guru English." Social Text 19.1 (2001): 19-44.
  23. "Equiano Lite." Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.4 (2001): 615-19.
  24. "The Return of Anachronism." Modern Language Quarterly 62.4 (2001)
  25. "In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory." Novel: A Forum for Fiction 33.1 (1999): 5-31.
  26. "Postcolonial Affiliations: Ulysses and All About H. Hatterr." Transculturing Joyce. Ed. Karen Lawrence. Cambridge UP, Dec. 1998.
  27. "Fables of Censorship: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Western Humanities Review 49.4 (Winter, 1995): 323-39.
  28. "What is Not a Nation?." New Directions in Cognitive Science, Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society  (Dec. 1995): 368-80.
  29. "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the Hammam: Masquerade, Womanliness, and Levantinization." ELH 62.1 (Spring, 1995): 69-104.
  30. "Trop(icaliz)ing the Enlightenment: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes." Diacritics 23.3 (Fall, 1993): 48-68.  special edition on French colonialism
  31. "Deconstruction, Soma-significance and the Implicate Order: David Bohm and Jacques Derrida." The Search for Meaning: The New Spirit in Science and Philosophy. Ed. Paavo Pylkkanen. Cricible, Dec. 1989. 238-56.
  32. "Being God's Postman is No Fun,Yaar': Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses." Diacritics 19.2 (Summer, 1989): 3-20.  Reprinted in M.D. Fletcher, ed. Reading Rushdie, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of Ros Ballaster, Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785.  Modern Language Quarterly 68.2 (Summer, 2008).
  2.  Garden Variety Queer Studies? Review of Jill Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization.  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13.2 (Summer, 2007).
  3. Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. Genius in Bondage.  American Literature 75.2 (June, 2003): 427-29.
  4.  A Review of Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature.  Modern Language Quarterly (2002).
  5.  A Review of Rajan Balachandra's Under Western Eyes.  Modern Language Quarterly 62.1 (Jan. 2001): 74-78.
  6.  Art Criticism As A Multi-Sited Ethnography: A Review of Beth Fowkes Tobin's Picturing Imperial Power.  Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation 42.2 (Jan. 2001): 181-84.
  7.  A Review of Tzvetzan Todorov's The Morals of History.  Modern Language Quarterly 58.3 (Fall, 1997): 361-65.
  8.  A Review of Rudi C. Bleys's The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918.  Journal of Asian Studies 56.4 (Fall, 1997): 1044-47.

Other

  1. S. Aravamudan. "Three Hundred Years of the Arabian Nights." (2005). In CD-ROM audio, one of very few talks selected from 2004 Bloomsday Centennial Conference