Research Interests for Srinivas Aravamudan

Srinivas Aravamudan 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 and other venues. His study, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (1999, Duke University Press) won the 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 Cosmopolitan Contexts will be published by Princeton University Press in 2004. He is working on a book-length study of the eighteenth-century French and British oriental tale. He is also editing for classroom use William Earle's antislavery romance, entitled Obi: or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack.

Areas of Interest:

British Literature
18th Century Literature
1660-1900 Literature
Postcolonialism
Globalization

Representative 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