Kalpana Rahita Seshadri

associate professor of english




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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


   
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

New Window Will Open EN131.08- Studies in Poetry

New Window Will Open EN320.01- Indian Fiction and Film

New Window Will Open EN514.01 - Literature and the Political: War and Human Body

New Window Will Open 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).