English Department

Kalpana Rahita Seshadri

english department

Seshadri

Associate Professor

B.A., St. Francis College
Ph.D., Tufts University

Carney Hall 434
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-0598
Fax: 617-552-4220
Email: seshadrk@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~seshadrk                                           

Academic Profile

Specializes in post-colonial theory, Anglophone literatures, and critical theory, with an emphasis in psychoanalysis and Marxism. At present she is working on a book on the concept of "the Other" entitled "The Other Difference."

Courses

  • EN082- Literature and Society
  • EN131- Studies in Poetry
  • EN311- British Rule in India: Literature and Culture
  • EN755- Derrida and Agamben

Publications (selected)

  • Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race (2000).
  • Co-Editor, The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies (2000).
  • "The Ethics of Travel," in Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory (2002).
  • "I am a Master: Masculinity and Poltical Violence in Fanon," Parallax 8 (2002): 84-98.
  • "Being Human: Bestiality, Anthropophagy and Law" in Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious (September 2003): 97-114.
  • "Thinking Against Race" in Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Thought, Volume 3, No. 1, 2003 (137-152).