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Professor
Vinay Dharwadker

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1989

Office: 1230 Van Hise Hall
Phone: 608/262-3352

E-mail: vdharwadker@wisc.edu

Vinay Dharwadker

 
Specialties/Research Interests:

Indian and South Asian literatures; Hindi,Marathi,India-English literatures; religious poetry,bhakti literature; poetry, poetics; fiction,narrative theory; colonialism,postcoloniasm; translation studies; cultural studies, popular culture; modern theory; modernities,modernisms, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.

 
Current Projects

Bilingual Cosmopolitans: Modernist Poets in the Postcolony
Indian Modernisms: Writing, Innovation, and Reform
Histories and Theories of Modernity
Cosmopolitan Conditions

 
Recent Publications:

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture,Vol.6: Asia and Pacific Oceania, co-editor (2007).

Kabir: The Weaver's Songs (Penguin Classics, 2003,2005).

"The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature," in Literary Cultures in History (California, 2003).

Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2001).

The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan (Oxford, 1999).

"Print Culture and Literary Markets in Colonial India," in Language Machines (Routledge,1997).

Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western World (Prentice Hall, 1995).

The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994).

Sunday at the Lodi Gardens, poems (Viking, 1994).

Essays in Translation Theory (2006),Comparative Literature Studies (2002),English Postcoloniality (1996),Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament (1993), Critical Inquiry (1992).

Poetry in Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008),Confronting Love (2005),Kenyon Review (2003), London Magazine (1997), Hudson Review (1987).

Translations in Language for a New Century (2007), World Poetry (1998), Religions of India in Practice (1995), Chicago Review (1992), Tri-Quarterly (1990).

 
Courses Regularly Taught: LITTRANS 211/LCA 311: Modern Indian Literature in Translation
LCA 653/LCA 654: Advanced Readings in Hindi Language/Literature
LCA 666: Proseminar: Topics in Asian and South Asian Studies, Modern Theory
LCA 873: Seminar: Topics in South Asian Literatures and Theory

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Last updated April 8, 2008
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