Srinivas Aravamudan, Professor, English, Literature, and French Studies and Dean of the Humanities

Contact Info:

Office Location:	102 Allen
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2640, (919) 684-6811
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Education:

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

Specialties:

French
Critical Theory, Philosophy
Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
Modern and Contemporary
Decolonial and Post-colonial Studies

Research Interests: British Literature; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Literature

Current projects: Fictional Orients, Sovereignty and Anachronism

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. A new book-length study, on the eighteenth-century French and British oriental tale, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press (2012); another on sovereignty and anachronism is forthcoming. His edition of William Earle's antislavery romance, entitled Obi: or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack appeared in 2005 with Broadview Press.

Areas of Interest:

British Literature
18th Century Literature
Critical Theory
Postcolonialism

Keywords:

novel • orientalism • sovereignty • colonialism • slavery • abolition • empire

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Hillary C Eklund  
• Jayoung Min  
• Bill Knight  
• Pramod Mishra  
• Mandakini Dubey  
• Tedra Osell  
• Anne Gulick  
• Khaled Mattawa  
• Julie Kim  
• Yi-Ting Wang  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (2012), University of Chicago Press
2. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (May, 1999), Duke UP
3. Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (January, 2006), Princeton UP (Republished by Penguin India, Fall 2007.)
4. William Earle's Obi or the History of Three-Fingered Jack, Broadview Literary Texts (July, 2005)
5. Hobbes and America, in The Postcolonial Enlightenment, edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Spring, 2009), pp. 37-70, Oxford University Press
6. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights, in The Arabian Nights After Three Hundred Years, edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Saree Makdisi (Winter, 2008), Oxford University Press
7. East and West Indies: Comparative Misapprehensions, Anthropological Forum, vol. 16 no. 3 (November, 2006), pp. 291-309