• PhD, Cornell University, 1991
• MA, Cornell University, 1988
• MA, Purdue University, 1986
• BA, Loyola College, Madras University, 1984

Research Interests:  

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.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Articles in a Collection

•  "Hobbes and America." The Postcolonial Enlightenment Ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa. Oxford University Press, Spring, 2009, 37-70.
•  "Talking Jewels and Other Oriental Seductions."  Winter, 2008.
•  "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.
•  "Commerce, Adventure, and Empire." Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge University Press, Winter, 2008.

•  Review of Ros Ballaster, Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785. Modern Language Quarterly 68:2 (Summer, 2008).