
At a glance...
 Kalpana Seshadri Department of English College of Arts and Sciences
seshadrk@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~seshadrk
Office Location Carney Hall 434 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-0598 Fax: 617-552-4220
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EDUCATION
B.A., St. Francis College Ph.D., Tufts University
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." She will be directing the Women's Studies Program starting the fall of 2003.
COURSES
EN131.08- Studies in Poetry
EN320.01- Indian Fiction and Film
EN514.01 - Literature and the Political: War and Human Body
EN612.01- Seminar: Violence and Language
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).
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