R. Radhakrishnan

For the politician, see R. Radhakrishnan (politician).

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Born	(1949-10-28)28 October 1949 Sirkali, Tamil Nadu
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Postcolonialism, Postmodernism
Notable ideas	diasporic hybridity global unevenness
Influences Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, David Harvey, Michel Foucault, Adrienne Rich, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Influenced David Harvey, Xu Ben, Brenda Marshall.

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and is considered one of the leading postcolonial theorists and literary critics in the United States. He was born on 28 October 1949, in Sirkali, a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Radhakrishnan is also noted as a translator and poet of Tamil as well as a master of English and English literary criticism. He was initially educated in Madras and earned his PhD from Binghamton University.

External links

• R. Radhakrishnan page at UC Irvine site