R. Radhakrishnan is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative
 Literature at the University of California, Irvine.  He is the author
 of
 1) DIASPORIC MEDIATIONS: BETWEEN HOME AND LOCATION 1996, 2)THEORY IN
 AN UNEVEN WORLD 2003,
 3) BETWEEN IDENTITY AND LOCATION: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THEORY
 2007,
 4) HISTORY, THE HUMAN, AND THE WORLD BETWEEN (2008),
 5) EDWARD W. SAID: A CONTRAPUNTAL DICTIONARY (forthcoming 2011),
 6) WHEN IS THE POLITICAL? (forthcoming 2012), and editor/coeditor of
 7) THEORY AS VARIATION 2007,
 8) TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIANS: THE MAKING OF A NEO DIASPORA (2008),
 9) THEORY AFTER DERRIDA: ESSAYS IN CRITICAL PRACTICE (2009), and
 10) THEORY, MODERNITY, COLONIALISM (forthcoming 2011).

 His essays have appeared in a wide range of international journals and
 collections. Author of a volume of poems in Tamil, he is also the
 translator of contemporary Tamil fiction into English, and the
 recipient of a number of Awards and Fellowships including the
 Fulbright.

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Radhakrishnan