Reading Contrapuntally, Living in the Present: An Interview with R. Radhakrishnan

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Published: May 1, 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16607
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reading cultural critique interview R. Radhakrishnan Mina Karavanta
Mina Karavanta
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-2552
R. Radhakrishnan
University of California, Irvine
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Author Biographies
Mina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Mina Karavanta is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens. She is co-editor with Nina Morgan (Kennesaw State University) of Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid (CSP, 2009); co-editor with Bessie Dendrinos & Bessie Mitsikopoulou of New Englishes, a special issue of EJES (2008); and co-author with Giovanna Covi et al. of ReSisters in Conversation (Raw Nerve 2006). As one of the co-ordinators of Interculturality/ReSisters (ATHENA III), she is currently co-editing with Giovanna Covi and Joan Anim-Addo a collection of essays on gender and interculturality.
R. Radhakrishnan, University of California, Irvine

R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of several books that include History, the Human, and the World Between (Duke University Press, 2008), Between Identity and Location: The Politics of Theory (Orient Longman, India, 2007), Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell, 2003), Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), and numerous essays that have appeared in journals such as Social Text, Callaloo, boundary 2, Cultural Critique, New Literary History, MELUS, New Centennial Review and others.

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