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SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN

Professor Principal InvestigatorDepartments of English, Romance Studies Humanities Writ LargeAnd the Program in Literature Duke UniversityBox 90015, Duke University Durham, NC 27708Durham, NC 27708 (919) 684-2640

EDUCATION:B.A., Loyola College, Madras University, 1984; M.A., Purdue University 1986; M.A., Cornell University, 1988; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991

EMPLOYMENT:Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Utah, 1991-96.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Washington, 1996-98.Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature,

University of Washington, 1998-2000.

Associate Professor, Department of English, Duke University, 2000-2006.Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, 2003-2009.Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2005.Professor, Department of English, Duke University, 2006- .Professor, Literature Program, Duke University, 2008-.Professor, Romance Studies, Duke University, 2009-.Dean of the Humanities, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, 2009-14.Visiting Professor, University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 2012-13.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS:Exchange scholar to Brockwood Park International School, U.K., Spring, 1978. Scholarship to Brockwood Park International School, U.K., 1979-81. B.A. First Year Gold Medalist, Loyola College, 1981-82.B.A. Second Year Gold Medalist, Loyola College 1982-83. Fr. Jerome D’Souza Medal for Leadership and Public Speaking, 1982-83. B.A. Final Year Gold Medalist, Loyola College, 1983-84. Cornell University Summer Research Fellowship, International Summer Institute for

Semiotics and Structural Studies, Toronto, Summer 1987. Graduate Continuing Fellowship, Cornell University, 1988-89. Walter Schon Lenk Fellowship, Cornell University, 1990-91. Dee Grant for Curricular Development, University of Utah, 1994-95. Delegate for Late Eighteenth-Century Studies, Modern Language Association, 1995-98.Modern Language Association, Divisional Executive Committee, Comparative Studies in

Eighteenth-Century Literature. [Elected 5-year term, 2000-2004]


Modern Language Association, Annual Prize for Best First Book, 2000. Oceans Connect Grant for British Caribbean, 16th to 18th Centuries and Obi project. Advisory Board, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2004-08. [Elected]. Invited to teach six-week course at School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 2004.Visiting lecturer, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2005.National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at John Carter Brown Library, 2006-07.American Council for Learned Societies Fellow, 2006-07.President of Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2007-12.Senior Distinguished Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National

University, Canberra Australia, June-August 2011, June-July 2012.Principal Investigator, A. W. Mellon Grant for CHCI, “Collaborative Humanities,”

2011-12 ($100,000)Principal Investigator, A. W. Mellon Grant for Duke University “Humanities Writ

Large,” 2011-16 ($6,000,000).Oscar Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University.George and Barbara Perkins Prize, International Society for the Study of the Novel.

PUBLICATIONS:Books (Monographs):

1. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804, Duke University Press, published May 1999, 424 pages. [In Post-Contemporary Interventions Series, eds. Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson]

Winner of Modern Language Association Outstanding First Book Prize, 2000. Tropicopolitans reviewed in the following journals and elsewhere:

ChoiceEighteenth-Century Studies (twice)Australian Journal of the HumanitiesGenreEnglish: the Journal of the English AssociationCanadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and ReviewTimes Literary SupplementModern Language QuarterlyCollege EnglishStudies in English Literature 1500-1900Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative LiteratureDiasporaThamyrisResearch In African LiteraturesStudies in the NovelJournal for the Study of British CultureJournal of English and Germanic PhilologyHuntington Library QuarterlyBulletin des études anglo-américaines des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles


Year’s Work in English Studies

2. Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language, Princeton University Press, 2006. [In Translation/Transnation series, edited by Emily Apter].

Guru English reviewed in the following journals:ChoiceModern PhilologyInterventions: A Journal of Postcolonial StudiesInternational Journal of Hindu StudiesJournal of Asian StudiesMLQ2A. Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language,

republication by Penguin India, 2007.

3. Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Winner of Oscar Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University [Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies in 2012]

Winner of George and Barbara Perkins Prize, International Society for the Study of Narrative [Best Contribution to Study of Narrative in 2012]

Enlightenment Orientalism reviewed in the following journals:ChoiceEighteenth-Century FictionEighteenth-Century StudiesKult OnlineFrench StudiesModern Language ReviewMLQCollege EnglishResearch in African LiteraturesDigital Defoe

Books (Critical Editions): 4. Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic

Period. Vol 6, Literary Forms: Fiction, London: Pickering and Chatto, published May 1999, 392 pages.

Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation reviewed in the following journals:Eighteenth-Century StudiesTimes Higher Education SupplementTimes Literary Supplement


Romantic CircleReviews in History

5. William Earle, Obi; or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack (Broadview Press, Literary Text Series, July 2005).

Journal Special Issues:1. Special issue on “War,” co-edited with Diana Taylor, PMLA Vol. 124 No. 5,

October 2009, 400 pp.

Articles:1. Deconstruction, Soma-significance and the Implicate Order: David Bohm and

Jacques Derrida,” in The Search for Meaning: the New Spirit in Science and Philosophy, ed. Paavo Pylkkanen (London: Crucible, 1989), 238-56.

2. “Being God’s Postman is No Fun, Yaar”: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” Diacritics vol. 19 no. 2 (Summer 1989), 3-20. Reprinted in Reading Rushdie, ed. D. M. Fletcher (Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995), 187-208.

3. “Trop(icaliz)ing the Enlightenment: Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes.” Diacritics vol. 23 no. 3 (Fall 1993), 48-68.

4. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the Hammam: Masquerade, Womanliness, and Levantinization.” ELH vol. 62 no.1 (Spring 1995), 69-104.

5. “Fables of Censorship: Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.” Western Humanities Review, vol. 49 no .4 (Winter 1995), 323-29.

6. “What is Not a Nation?” in New Direction in Cognitive Science (Helsinki: Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, 1995), 368-80.

7. “Postcolonial Affiliations: Ulysses and All About H. Hatterr,” in Transculturing Joyce, ed. Karen Lawrence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 97-128.

8. “In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory.” Novel: A Forum For Fiction vol. 33 no.1 (Fall 1999), 5-31.

9. “Progress Through Violence or Progress From Violence: Interpreting Ambivalences of the Histoire des deux Indes,” in Progress and Violence in the Enlightenment, eds. Deidre Dawson and Valérie Cossy (Paris: Champion, 2001), 259-80.

10. “Guru English.” Social Text vol. 19 no.1 (Spring 2001), 19-44.11. “Equiano Lite.” Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 34 no. 4 (Summer 2001),

615-19.12. “The Return of Anachronism.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 62 no. 4

(Fall 2001), 331-53.13. “The Colonial Logic of Late Romanticism.” South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 102

no. 1 (Winter 2003), 179-217.14. “Ground Zero: Or, the Implosion of Church and State,” in Dissent from the

Homeland: Essays After September 11, eds. Frank Lentricchia and Stanley


Hauerwas (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 195-203.15. “Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: Four Corollaries,” in World Orders:

Confronting Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth, ed. William Rasch, South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 104 no. 2 (Spring 2005), 227-36.

16. “Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” in Blackwell’s The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Companion to Literature and Culture, eds. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Oxford: Blackwell, Fall 2005), 48-74.

17. “The Unity of the Representer”: Reading Leviathan Against the Grain,” in South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 104 no. 4 (Fall 2005), 631-53.

18. “Sovereignty: Between Embodiment and Detranscendentalization,” Texas International Law Journal vol. 41 no. 3 (Summer 2006), 427-46.

19. “East Indies and West Indies: Comparative Misapprehensions,” Anthropological Forum vol. 16 no. 3 (November 2006), 291-309.

20. “Talking Jewels and Other Oriental Seductions,” in Diderot and European Culture, eds. Anthony Strugnell and Frédéric Ogée (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Vol. 9, 2006), 15-34.

21. “Subjects/Sovereigns/Rogues,” in special issue on “Derrida’s Eighteenth Century,” Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 40 no. 3 (Spring 2007), 457-65.

22. “Orientalism,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature 5 vols., eds. David Scott Kastan, et al. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2007), 143-50.

23. “Interview with Srinivas Aravamudan and Ranjana Khanna,” (with Ranjana Khanna), in Ian Buchanan, ed., Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), 203-40.

24. “The Teleopoiesis of Singularity,” Forum on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Influences Past, Present, and Future, PMLA vol. 123 no. 1 (January 2008), 244-46.

25. “The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights,” in The Arabian Nights After Three Hundred Years, eds. Felicity Nussbaum and Saree Makdisi, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 235-64.

26. “Defoe, Commerce, and Empire,” in The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 45-63.

27. “Hobbes and America,” in The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, eds. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 37-70.

28. “Rogue States and Emergent Disciplines,” in States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies, eds. Russ Castronovo and Susan Gillman (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 17-35.

29. “Introduction: Perpetual War,” in “War,” eds. Srinivas Aravamudan and Diana Taylor, PMLA Vol. 124 No. 5 (October 2009), 1505-14.


30. “Foreword,” Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, ed. Pedro Lasch (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010), 2-5.

31. “The Character of the University,” boundary 2 Vol. 37 No. 1 (Winter 2010), 23-55.

32. “Refusing the Death of the Novel.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 44 No. 1 (2011), 20-22.

33. “Exoticism Beyond Cosmopolitanism?,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 25 No. 1 (Fall 2012), 227-42.

34. “What Kind Of A Story Is This?,” Lead Essay to MLA Approaches to Teaching Oroonoko, (New York: Modern Language Association, Fall 2013).

35. “The Catachronism of Climate Change,” diacritics, 41.3 (Fall 2013): 6-30.36. “From East-West Fiction to World Literature,” Eighteenth-Century Studies,

vol. 47 no. 2 (February 2014), 195-232.37. “On Peace and the International Humanities,” in ReDrafting Perpetual Peace,

eds. Rosi Braidotti and Greg Lambert (New York: 2014).

Reviews:1. Tzvetzan Todorov, The Morals of History, Modern Language Quarterly vol.

58 no. 3 (Fall 1997), 361-65. 2. Rudi C. Bleys, The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior

Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918, Journal of Asian Studies vol. 56 no. 4 (Fall 1997), 1044-47.

3. Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes, Modern Language Quarterly vol. 62 no. 1 (Spring 2001), 74-78.

4. “Art Criticism As A Multi-Sited Ethnography,” Review of Beth Fowkes Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation vol. 42 no. 2 (Summer 2001) 181-84.

5. Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature, Modern Language Quarterly vol. 64 no. 1 (Spring 2003), 130-35.

6. Vincent Caretta, Genius in Bondage, American Literature vol. 75 no. 2 (June 2003), 427-29.

7. “Garden Variety Queer Studies?” Review of Jill Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies vol. 13 nos. 2-3 (Spring 2007), 409-12.

8. Ros Ballaster, Fabulous Orients, Modern Language Quarterly vol. 69 no .2 (June 2008), 295-98.

9. Jean and John Comaroff, Theory from the South: How EuroAmerica is Evolving Toward Africa, Cultural Anthropology, January 2012.

10. Toby Miller, Blow Up the Humanities, in LA Review of Books December 2012 http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1267&fulltext=1&media= - article-text-cutpoint

11. Simon Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste, MLQ Summer 2014.

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Work in Progress:Book Projects:1. Multichronicities: Literary Time and Space (under research, drafting, and

conceptualization, first draft of around 50%).

2. Sovereignty and Subjectivity: From Hobbes to Habermas (under research, drafting and conceptualization, first draft of 50%).

3. The Anthropocene Enlightenment (under research and conceptualization).

4. An edition of Hector MacNeill’s The Life and Travels of Charles Macpherson (a novel on Caribbean slavery, set on Guadeloupe, publ. 1800).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:1. Editorial Boards/Advisory Committees:

PMLA Editorial Advisory Committee, 2003-06Eighteenth-Century Studies Advisory Editor, 2003-06The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Advisory Editor, 2002-06.Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Advisory Editor, 2007-10.Cultural Studies, Editorial Board, 2004-08.Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Novel, Editorial Board.Criticism, Advisory Board, 2006-12.Co-editor (with Diana Taylor), PMLA special issue on war, Fall 2009.Novel: A Forum for Fiction, Advisory Board, 2011-14.Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Advisory Board, 2003-07.Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, President, 2007-12.

2. Selected Conference Talks and Invited Lectures:“Heliotropic Photography: Jacob Riis and the Testament of Tenement Reform,”

National Comparative Literature Conference, Cornell University April 1987.

“Derrida, De Man, and Wordsworth’s Essays Upon Epitaphs,” Low Romantic Argument: Wordsworth and the Institutions of Romanticism. Cornell University, October 1987.

“Can David Bohm and Jacques Derrida Have a Dialogue?” Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Philosophy, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 1988.

“Toussaint Louverture, Voodoo, and Politics,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, March 1992.

“Commodity Culture, Piracy, and Resistance,” North American Conference on British Studies, Boulder, October 1992.

“Colonial Fetishism,”Semiotic Society of American, Chicago, October 1992.

“Black Bodies and Vacant Spaces: Arrested Development in the Burkean Sublime,” Division of late Eighteenth-Century English literature,


MLA Convention, Toronto, December 1993. “Ethnographic Narrative in the Eighteenth Century,” American Society for

Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 1994.

“Re-Membering Colonial Bodies,” After Empire, Ninth Annual Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium, March 1994.

“Postcolonial Satire in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” Western Humanities Conference, Eugene, Oregon, October 1994.

“Defoe, Equiano, and Tropicalization,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, November 1994.

“Postcolonial Theories and Eighteenth-Century Studies,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tucson, April 1995.

“Parables of Censorship: Rushdie in Transnational Contexts,” Narrative: An International Conference, Park City, Utah, April 1995.

“What is Not a Nation?” Multiculturalism in a Global Perspective, Utah, May 1995.

“Beckford’s Spectralization,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Dallas, October 1995.

“Joyce, Desani, and Transculturation,” Division of Comparative Literature in the Twentieth Century, MLA Convention, Chicago, December 1995.

“Wresting the Oriental Tale from a National-Realist Canon,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin, March 1996.

“Shahbano,” New Approaches to International Law Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 1996.

“Anthropology and Cultural Studies,” New Approaches to Comparative Law Conference, Utah Law School, Salt Lake City, October 1996.

“Diabolism and Xenophobia in Defoe’s A Political History of the Devil,” MLA Division of Early 18th-Century Literature, MLA Convention,

Washington, D.C., December 1996. “Mahfuz, Rushdie, and Scheherazade,” American Comparative Literature

Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 1997. “Sierra Leone and Literacies,” Division of Late 18th-Century Literature, MLA

Convention, Toronto, 1997. “The Impact of Postcolonial Theory on 18th Century Studies,” American Society

for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Bend, Indiana, April 1998. “Derrida and the Dream of Monolingualism,” International Association of

Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, May 1998. “The Future of Close Reading,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century

Studies, Milwaukee, March 1999.“Putting Colonialism on the Curriculum: Literature, Law, Political Economy,”

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, March 1999.

“Slavery and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Studies,” Cornell University English Department, April 1999.


“Colonialism and Euhemerism: Notes on the Captain Cook Controversy,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 1999, Coral Gables, Florida.

“Guru English,” SACPAN Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 1999.“In the Wake of the Novel,” Brown University, December 1999. “The Oriental Tale and National Realism,” The Global Eighteenth Century: The

Four Corners of the Earth, UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth- Century Studies, Clark Library, February 2000.

“Re-fusing Period History While Refusing History, Period,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April 2000.

“Picturing Imperial Power,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April 2000.

“The Pseudo-Anthropological Fiction,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 2000.

“The Return of Anachronism,” Department of English, Duke University, November 2000.

“Vectors of Comparison: Empire, Anthropology, Education,” Modern Language Association, Washington DC, December 2000.

“Comparison After Colonialism,” Modern Language Association, Washington DC, December 2000.

“Slavery and Sexuality,” at Department of English, University of California-Riverside, February 2001.

“South Asian Diasporic Cultures,” at University of California at Los Angeles, February 2001.

“Obeah,” at Department of English, University of Miami, March 2001.“Religion in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean,” at American Society for

Eighteenth-Century Studies in New Orleans, April 2001.Response to a special session on Tropicopolitans at American Society for

Eighteenth-Century Studies in New Orleans, April 2001.“South Asian Religions,” University of Skövde, Sweden, July 2001.“Religion and the Event,” Department of Religion, Duke University, September

2001.“Ground Zero: Or, the Implosion of Church and State,” Women’s Studies

Program, Duke University, September 2001.“The Emergence of the Anglophone Guru,” Conference on South Asia, October

2001.“The Indian Sublime or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural,” DeRoy Distinguished

Visiting Lecturer, Wayne State University, April 2002; University of North Carolina February 2003; University of Minnesota March 2004.

“Professors of Obi: Resistance to Slavery in the British Caribbean, 1760-1834,” Plenary Lecture at Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chapel Hill, May 2002.

“Talking Jewels and Other Oriental Seductions,” Clark Library UCLA, June 2002 [Invited]; University of Minnesota March 2003.

“Diasporic Religions in the Caribbean,” Visiting Speaker on Diasporas, Florida


State University, Tallahassee, September 2002.“Archipelagic Fetishism, the East and West Indies, and the Colonial Imaginary,”

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002.“The Premises of Enlightenment,” Clark Library, UCLA, June 2003.“The Unity of the Representer,” Thinking Politically Conference, September

2003.“Kipling’s Lama,” The English Institute, Harvard University, September 2003.“The Turkish Spy,” University of California, Santa Barbara, November 2003.“Hobbes and Foucault,” MLA Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2003.“Fiction/Nation/Translation,” ASECS, Boston, March 2004.“Three Hundred Years of the Arabian Nights,” ASECS, Boston, March 2004.“Joyce and Galland,” Bloomsday 100 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2004.“The Turkish Spy,” University of New Hampshire, October 2004.“Hobbes’s Leviathan,” Harvard University Humanities Center, October 2004.“Sovereignty and Anachronism,” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December

2004.“Kipling and Aurobindo as Late Romanticists,” California Berkeley, February

2005.“Religious Post-Nuclearism,” University of Utah, March 2005.“Hobbes, Badiou, and the Religious Implications of Leviathan,” Duino, Italy,

Sovereignty and Subjectivity Conference, April 2005.“Response to Geoffrey Hartman, Stanley Fish, and Dominick LaCapra,” School

of Criticism and Theory Conference, Duke University, April 2005.“Equiano Revisited,” EHESS, Paris, May 2005.“Diasporic Hinduism,” EHESS, Paris, June 2005.“Science and Humanities,” CHCI, Utrecht, June 2005.“Oriental Adventure: From Structural Narratology to Political Critique,” UCLA

Arabian Nights conference, October 2005.“Sovereignty Theory and Its Aftermath,” Rapoport Center for Human Rights,

University of Texas Law School, November 2005.“Chronotopes and Xenotropes,” Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford

University, November 2005.“Chronotopes and Xenotropes,” MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia,

December 2005.Respondent to panel on “Victorian Tropicopolitans,” MLA Annual Convention,

Philadelphia, December 2005.“The Nuclear Sublime,” Endowed Lecture, Michigan State University, January

2006. “Subjects/Sovereigns/Rogues,” panel on Derrida at ASECS, Montreal, March

2006.Respondent to panel on Provincializing Europe at ASECS, Montreal, March

2006.“East Indies and West Indies: Comparative Misapprehensions,” Endowed

Lecture, Brown University, April 2006.


“Post-Colonial American Studies,” lecture at University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2006.

“The Difference Between History and Literature,” keynote at interdisciplinary conference on humanities at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2006.

“Chronotopes and Xenotropes,” Endowed Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September 2006.

“Satire and Pseudoethnography in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,” University of Michigan South Asia Studies, November 2006.

“Orientalism in India and America,” Rutgers University, January 2007.“Hobbes and America,” John Carter Brown Library, March 2007.“The Future of Critique,” Pembroke Center, Brown University, April 2007.“For Better or For Worse? Monolingualism and Cosmopolitanism,” Cornell

University, April 2007.“Should I Be Reading Books or Counting Them?” Plenary panel, American

Council for Learned Societies, Montreal, May 2007.“Abolition 200 Years Later,” introduction to 200 Years After Abolition, Duke

University, September 2007.“Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, Multiculturalism,” State

University of New York at Stony Brook, October 2007.“The Institution of Critique in a Cosmopolitan Setting,” Glasscock Center for the

Humanities, Texas A&M University, November 2007.“Hobbes and Thucydides,” Stanford Humanities Center, November 2007.“Critique and Hospitality,” Heberle Endowed Lecture, University of Michigan

Department of English, February 2008.“Hobbes and America,” Political Theory and Gerst Program Spring Symposium,

Duke University, April 2008.“What is Ethics?” Kenan Institute for Ethics Symposium, Duke University,

September 2008.“Strange Reading: The Stranger in the Eighteenth Century,” Keynote at the

University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference, October 2008.“Orientalism in the 18th Century,” Department of English, University of

Maryland, College Park, October 2008.“Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Nation,” Department of Romance Studies

Colloquium, Duke University, October 2008.“Critique and Humanities Institutes,” 12th Annual Taiwan Humanities League

Plenary Lecture, Taiwan National University, Taipei, November 2008.“Religious Counterpublics,” Yale University SSRC workshop, December 2008.“Postmodern Theory and Postcolonial Critique,” Centre for Linguistics,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, February 2009.“The Bhagavadgita and the Bomb,” Jaipur, India, February 2009.“New Age Religions and Indian Spiritualism,” Agra, India, February 2009.“Enchantment and Disenchantment,” CRASSH, Cambridge University, April

2009.


“Singularity and Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes,” Rice University Department of English, October 2009.

“Humanities Centers in the 21st Century,” Rice University Humanities Institute, October 2009.

“Discoveries of New Worlds, Talking Animals, and Remote Nations,” Plenary Lecture at Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, and Learning Conference, Dartmouth University, November 2009.

“Gulliver’s Travels and Orientalism,” Yale University Department of English, December 2009.

“The Arabian Nights in the Eighteenth Century,” at Arabian Nights Encounters and Translations Conference, New York University Institute for Advanced Studies at Abu Dhabi, December 2009.

“Critique and Hospitality,” Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, January 2010.

“How to Defend the Humanities,” Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, January 2010.

“Enlightenment Orientalism,” U of Pennsylvania English Dept, March 2010.“The Future of the Humanities,” National Humanities Center, July 2010.“The Global University,” University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South

Africa, July 2010.“Hobson-Jobson,” Keynote Lecture at Global English Dictionaries Conference,

Kingston Ontario, Queens University, August 2010.“Enlightenment Orientalism,” Invited Lecture at Portland State University,

Portland, January 2011.“Kalila and Dimna,” Harvard University Department of English, April 2011.“The Consequences of the Financial Downturn,” Invited Panelist, American

Council for Learned Societies, Washington DC, May 2011.“What is World Literature,” Humanities Research Center, University of Canberra,

Australia, July 2011, invited lecture.“Enlightenment Orientalism,” Humanities Research Center, University of

Canberra, Australia, July 2011.“Network Humanities,” Keynote lecture at the inaugural meeting of the

Australian Consortium of Humanities Centers, Adelaide, Australia, July 2011.

“Mediterranean Humanities,” Keynote lecture at inaugural meeting, Humanities Mediterranean consortium (Granada, Spain, September, 2011).

“Theory from the South,” panel on Jean and John Comaroff, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2011.

“Forms, Memes, and Ideologemes,” Modern Language Association annual convention, Division on Literary Criticism, Seattle, January 2012.

“Enlightenment Orientalism,” Institute of Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 2012.

“Whose Literary Geography?” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2012.


“Network Humanities,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2012.

“Rethinking the Human Sciences,” Columbia University, March 2012.“The Curious Case of Hayy ibn Yaqzan,” Cornell University, April 2012.“21st Century Humanities,” University of Sydney, June 2012.“Deep History Under Cover,” Humanities Research Centre, Australian National

University, July 2012.“Orientalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” conference keynote, Canadian

Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Calgary, October 2012.Response to panel on “Enlightenment Orientalism,” Calgary, October 2012.“French Representations of Tyranny,” conference keynote, Franke Humanities

Institute and Romance Studies, University of Chicago, November 2012.“Slavery and the Culture of Taste: Response to Simon Gikandi,” Modern

Language Association Convention, January 2013.

“Orientalist Experimentalism,” invited lecture at Oxford University Maison Française, May 2013.

“Les armes miraculeuses: Obeah au XVIIIe siècle,” invited lecture at Musée Quai Branly, Paris, France.

“The Oriental Parable,” invited lecture, the University of Georgia, Athens, September 2013.

Panel Discussion, Indiana University, on the occasion of the award of Oscar Kenshur Prize to Enlightenment Orientalism, September 2013.

“On Climate Change and Disaster Movies,” Leonora Woodman Distinguished Lecture, Purdue University, September 2013.

“Cosmopolitan Humanities,” keynote lecture for the 20th anniversary celebration of the Wayne State University Humanities Center, September 2013.

“The Anthropocene Sublime,” Connelly Distinguished Lecture, Grinnell College, Iowa, October 2013.

“The Oriental Parable,” Talk to English majors, Grinnell College, Iowa, October 2013.

“Re-Enlightenment,” invited respondent to Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, London, Ontario, October 2013.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (1991-present):1. Undergraduate Courses: eighteenth-century novel, surveys of Restoration and

eighteenth-century literature, contemporary literary theory, satire, film, theories of genre, postcolonial literature, South Asian fiction, writing seminars, honors seminars, single-author courses on Richardson, Swift, Rushdie.

2. Graduate Courses: eighteenth-century fiction, eighteenth-century colonialism and orientalism, contemporary literary theory, Enlightenment political philosophy, theories of nationalism, comparative imperialism, Marxist theory, Caribbean studies, theories of war, comparative imperialisms and sovereignty theory, the


concept of the university.

3. Completed PhD Committees (with research topics of dissertation):Ann Elizabeth Ellsworth, 1997, Didactic Novel.Andy Nestingen, 2001, Finland and Globalization.Tedra Osell, 2002, Women and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical.Chi-ming Yang, 2003, Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England.Sean Moore, 2003, Financial Satire and Swift and Revolution.Mandakini Dubey, 2003, Orientalist Initiations.Pramod Mishra, 2003, V. S. Naipaul.Julie Kim, 2005, Food in the 18th Century.Austin Kelley, 2005, Wordsworth and Tourism.Arnal Dayaratna, 2006, The Partition of India.Allison Dushane, 2008, Romantic Poetry.Erin Fehskens, 2009, Postcolonial Classics.Hillary Eklund, 2009, Renaissance Ecology.Nilanjana Dutta, 2009, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.Anne Gulick, 2009, Postcolonial Constitutions.Nathan Hensley, 2009, Victorian Liberalism.Bill Knight, 2009, 18th-Century Satire.Khaled Mattawa, 2009, Postcolonial Poetry.Bart Scott, 2009, Religious Imposture.Sonali Barua, 2010, Musical Gurus.Ioanna Zlateva, 2010, English Renaissance Pastoral.Kris Weberg, 2011, Irish Modernism.Jayoung Min, 2011, Addiction and the Novel.Timothy Wright, 2012, Novel after Auschwitz.Netta van Vliet, 2012, Israeli Jews and the Liberal State.

4. Current PhD Committees: Azeen Khan.Ryan Vu.Jatin Dua.Bill Lane.Mani Rao.

LANGUAGE FLUENCY: English, French, Hindi, Tamil (advanced); Sanskrit, Italian (intermediate).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:1. Service at University of Utah (1991-96):

English Department: Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1991-92; Undergraduate Advising Committee, 1991-92; Asian Studies Committee, 1991-96; Department of English, Graduate Admissions and Policy Committee, 1992-94; Asian-


Americanist Recruitment Committee, 1993-94; Executive Committee, 1994-97.Executive Committee, 1994-97.College and University: Humanities Mission Statement Committee, 1993-94;Humanities Executive Committee, 1993-96; Tanner Lecture Committee, 1993-96.

2. Service at University of Washington (1996-2000):Department of English, Graduate Placement Committee, 1996-97.Jackson School of International Studies, South Asia Program Ad Hoc Search

Committee for Visiting Professor, 1997.Search Committee for South Asian Visiting Scholar, 1996-97.Department of English Junior Theorist Search, associate member, 1996-97.Department of English Heilman Dissertation Prize Committee, Spring 1997. Independent Study on Marxist Theory, Frankfurt School, Spring 1997.Executive Committee, Department of English, 1997-98.Committee for West European Studies, Jackson School,1997-98.Department of English Critical Theory Senior Search Committee, 1997-98.Department of English Graduate Studies Committee, 1997-98.Department of English, Graduate Studies Committee, 1999-2000.Department of Comparative Literature, Theory and Criticism Executive

Committee, 1999-2000.College of Arts and Sciences, Search Committee for the Director of the Simpson

Humanities Center, 1999-2000.English Department University of Washington Rome Program, Spring 2000.

3. Service at Duke University (2000-present):Department of English, Graduate Studies Committee, 2000-01.Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2007-08.Chair, Jennifer Thorn Tenure Review Committee, 2001-02.Grant Farred Tenure Review Committee (Literature), 2001-02.Kathi Weeks Tenure Review Committee (Women’s Studies), 2001-02.Duke University Press Editorial Advisory Board, 2001-04, 2004-07.Co-Convener, John Hope Franklin Seminar for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002-

03.18th-century Search Committee, 2004-05.Linguistics Search Committee, 2005-06.Grant Farred Promotion Committee, 2007-08; Linda Zerilli Promotion Committee, 2007-08; Nancy Armstrong Promotion Committee, 2007-08;Rey Chow Promotion Committee, 2008-09. Master’s Advisory Committee, 2009-10.As Dean of Humanities, ex-officio on around 10 university-wide standing committees 2009-13, from Academic Priorities to Council for the Arts.

4. Tenure Reviews for: Stanford University, University of New Mexico, Rice University, University of


California at Santa Cruz, University of California, Berkeley, New School for Social Research, University of Pennsylvania, University of California at Irvine, Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and several other institutions on multiple occasions.

5. Multiple Manuscript Reviews for:Stanford University Press, Duke University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Palgrave Press, Blackwell Press, PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Cultural Studies.

6. University Media Experience:Cornell University Routes Radio, 1998-99, a weekly two-hour Internet radio show entitled Virtual Humanity/Virtual Humanities, interviewing and featuring faculty at Cornell. Interviewed Tim Murray, Hortense Spillers, Annette Richards, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Trevor Pinch, Reginald Woolery, and others.

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