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'''Srinivas Aravamudan''' (1962 – April 13, 2016)<ref>[http://today.duke.edu/2016/04/srinivas Duke Flags Lowered: Humanities Advocate Srinivas Aravamudan Dies]</ref> was an Indian-born American academic. He was a professor of English, Literature, and Romance Studies at [[Duke University]], where he also served as dean of the [[humanities]]. He was widely recognized for his work on [[18th century|eighteenth-century British and French literature]] and [[postcolonial literature|postcolonial literature and theory]]. His publications included books and articles on [[novel]]s, [[slavery]], [[abolitionism|abolition]], [[secularism]], [[cosmopolitanism]], [[globalization]], [[climate change]], and the [[anthropocene]].

==Biography==
Aravamudan was born in 1962 in Madras and attended [[Loyola College, Chennai|Loyola College]], [[University of Madras]]. He held master's degrees from [[Purdue University]] and [[Cornell University]] and earned his Ph.D. at Cornell.<ref>{{cite book|last=Aravamudan|first=Srinivas|title=Tropical Figures: Colonial Representation in England and France, 1688-1789 (Dissertation ms.)|year=1991|publisher=Cornell University|location=Ithaca, NY|pages="Biographical Sketch"}}</ref> He taught at the [[University of Utah]] and the [[University of Washington]] before joining Duke's faculty in 2000.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last=Aravamudan|first=Srinivas|title=Faculty Page|url=http://english.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FEnglish&Uil=srinivas&subpage=profile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609210942/http://www.english.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FEnglish&Uil=srinivas&subpage=profile|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 June 2010|publisher=Duke University|access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref> He was awarded an honorary degree by [[Middlebury College]] in April 2016.<ref>[http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/april/van-jones-deliver-middlebury-college-commencement-address Vermont Business Magazine]. Retrieved 9 May 2016.</ref>

==Academic career==
In 2000, Aravamudan received the [[Modern Language Association]]'s prestigious prize for an outstanding first book for the publication of ''Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804'' (Duke University Press, 1999).<ref>{{cite news|last=Augustynowicz|first=Karolina|title=Modern Language Association Honors Sixteen Scholars and Writers|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Modern-Language-Association/107200/|access-date=21 April 2012|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=December 12, 2000}}</ref> The work was particularly acclaimed for its inventive readings of eighteenth-century works of literature in light of postcolonial theories and concerns.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Provincials and Tropicopolitans: Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies and the Un-Making of 'Great Britain' (review) | journal = [[Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (journal)|Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies]] | date = Winter 2000 | first = Suvir | last = Kaul | volume = 9 | issue = 3| url = https://muse.jhu.edu/article/444298/pdf | access-date = 19 April 2016}}</ref> Aravamudan’s second book, ''Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language'' (Princeton University Press, 2005; Penguin India, 2007), was similarly recognized for its expansive treatment of topics ranging from [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[orientalism]] to [[Deepak Chopra]],<ref>{{cite journal | title = Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (review) | journal = [[Modern Philology (journal)|Modern Philology]] | date = Nov 2006 | first = John | last = Plotz | volume = 104 | issue = 2| jstor = 10.1086/511729 }}</ref> as well as for its tracing of the complex circuits via which knowledge about South Asian religion was produced.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (review) | journal = [[The Journal of Asian Studies (journal)|The Journal of Asian Studies]] | date = Aug 2007 | first = Smita | last = Lahiri | volume = 66 | issue = 3| jstor = 20203224 }}</ref> In his third book, ''Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel'' (Chicago University Press, 2012), Aravamudan considered manifestations of orientalism during the eighteenth century. Aravamudan further challenged literary critics to move beyond the Anglocentrism of typical histories of the novel by uncovering a significant body of British and French orientalist texts and their borrowings from Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Pali, and Sanskrit sources.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (review) | journal = [[College Literature (journal)|College Literature]] | date = Fall 2014 | first = Betty| last = Joseph | volume = 41 | issue = 4 | url = https://muse.jhu.edu/article/557455 | access-date = 21 April 2016}}</ref> For ''Enlightenment Orientalism,'' Aravamudan received a ''CHOICE'' Outstanding Academic Title Award,<ref>{{cite journal | title = Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (review) | journal = [[CHOICE (journal)|CHOICE]] | date = June 2012 | first = M. J.| last = Emery | volume = 49 | issue = 10 | url = http://www.cro3.org/content/49/10/49-5492.full | access-date = 21 April 2016}}</ref> the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for the most significant contribution to the study of narrative from the International Society for the Study of Narrative,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize|url=http://narrative.georgetown.edu/awards/perkins.php|publisher=The International Society for the Study of Narrative|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> and the Oscar Kenshur Prize for the best book in eighteenth-century studies from Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kenshur Prize|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/Kenshurprize.html|publisher=Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref>

In addition to publishing the above books, Aravamudan edited a volume for the [[Pickering & Chatto Publishers|Pickering & Chatto]] series on ''Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period'' (1999).<ref>{{cite journal | title = Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic period (review) | journal = [[Reviews in History (journal)|Reviews in History]] | date = Dec 2001 | first = John| last = Marriott | url = http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/247 | access-date = 18 April 2016}}</ref> He also published an edition of William Earle’s ''Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack'' (Broadview, 2005), a novel from 1800 about the legend of [[Jack Mansong]], an escaped slave in late eighteenth-century Jamaica.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack|url=https://broadviewpress.com/product/obi-or-the-history-of-three-fingered-jack/#tab-description|publisher=[[Broadview Press]]|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref>

Aravamudan made significant contributions to the study of literature and the humanities at an institutional level as well. During his tenure at Duke, Aravamudan served as director of the [[Franklin Humanities Institute]] and dean of the humanities and oversaw such major projects as the [http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/ Humanities Writ Large] initiative.<ref>{{cite web|title=Humanities Writ Large|url=http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/|publisher=Duke University|access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref> Aravamudan also served as president of the international [[Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes]] (2007-2012, 2014-2016) and president of the [[American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies]] (2015-2016).<ref>[https://sites.duke.edu/srinivasaravamudan/about-me/ Srinivas Aravamudan, Professor of English, Literature, and Romance Studies at Duke University]</ref>

==Death==
He died on April 13, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/04/srinivas-aravamudan|title=Professor Srinivas Aravamudan dies Wednesday|work=The Chronicle}}</ref>

==Representative Publications==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=EpJSphTwVoYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=enlightenment+orientalism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ujuST_WZCYmk9AT7rdWvCQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel''] (University of Chicago Press: 2012)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=tusUlz2jb00C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Guru+English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0DuST4TSE4ns8wSz3pT5Aw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language''] (Princeton UP: 2006)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=17oU9nBX_N8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Tropicopolitans&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5juST8K-MIG-9QS73aHQDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804''] (Duke UP: 1999)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=gNcsT3STv4wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Obi+aravamudan&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-zuST_r2A4Sg8QTKgo2qBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack''] (Broadview: 2005) ed. Aravamudan
* Special issue of [[Publications of the Modern Language Association|PMLA]] on "War," ed. Aravamudan
* "The Character of the University," ''[[Boundary 2]]'' 37.1 (Winter 2010) 23-55
* "What Kind of a Story Is This?," [[Publications of the Modern Language Association|PMLA]] ''Approaches to Teaching Oroonoko'' (2010)
* "The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights," in ''The Arabian Nights After Three Hundred Years'', ed. [[Felicity Nussbaum]] and [[Saree Makdisi]] (2008)
* "Defoe, Commerce, Adventure, and Empire," in ''Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe'', ed. John Richetti (2008)
* "The Teleopoiesis of Singularity," ''PMLA'' 123.1 (January, 2008)
* (with [[Ranjana Khanna]] and [[Fredric Jameson]]) "Final Interview," in ''Jameson on Jameson'', ed. [[Ian Buchanan (philosopher)|Ian Buchanan]] (2007)
* "Orientalism," in ''The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature'', ed. David Scott Kastan and [[Nancy Armstrong]] (2007)
* "Subjects/Sovereigns/Rogues," ''[[Eighteenth-Century Studies]]'' 40.3 (Spring, 2007) 457-65
* "Sovereignty: Between Embodiment and Detranscendentalization," ''[[Texas International Law Journal]]'' 41.3 (Summer, 2006) 427-46
* "In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory," ''[[Novel: A Forum on Fiction]]'' 33.1 (1999) 5-31
* "Trop(icaliz)ing the Enlightenment: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes," ''[[Diacritics (journal)|Diacritics]]'' 23.3 (Fall, 1993) 48-68

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