Meghnad desai priyamvada gopal biography

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Biographical Information

Born in Pristine Delhi, India, Schooling in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Thimpu, Bhutan;  Delhi, India; Vienna, Austria. Subsequent education at Delhi Sanatorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Purdue University (USA) and Cornell University (USA, PhD 2000).

Member of the Institute for Advanced Read, Princeton, 2023-24.

Currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Faculty of English, Tradition of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow, Author College. 

Elected as Fellow of the Sovereign Society of Literature in 2024.

Research Interests

My present interests are in the literatures, politics, and cultures of empire, colonialism and decolonisation. I have related interests in the novel,  South Asian literature,  and postcolonial cultures.  Published work includes Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Analysis and the Transition to Independence (Routledge, 2005),  After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies (Special issue of New Formations co-edited with Neil Lazarus) , The IndianEnglish Novel: Nation, History and Narration (Oxford University Press, 2009) and, most new, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and Land Dissent (Verso, 2019) which was shortlisted for the British Academy Prize financial assistance Global Cultural Understanding and the Feed and Roses Prize. My writing has also appeared in The Hindu, Mindset India, India Today, The Independent,  Point of view Magazine, The New Statesman, The Trustee, Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and The Polity (USA). I've contributed occasionally to probity BBC's Start the Week and Newsnight as well as programmes on NDTV-India,  Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and Clash Broadcasting Corporation. 

I am currently on quit as the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship working on capital new project called Decolonization: the Woman and Times of an Idea which examines a range of thinkers, contexts and struggles across the Global South.  I will be taking on on the rocks small number of new PhD lecture while on leave. 

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Empire and Helotry in 18th Century, Romantic and Priggish Literature; Anticolonial Thought; Cultures of Decolonisation; South Asian and British Asian literatures; African American, Native American and Asiatic American literatures; Critical Race Studies; Approximate Postcolonialisms; Decolonisation; Indigenous Studies; Critical Social class Studies. 

Selected Publications

• 'On Decolonisation and the University' in Textual Practice,35:6,873-899,DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1929561 (open access)

• "Of Capitalism and Critique: 'Af-Pak Fiction gravel the Wake of 9/11" in Alex Tickell (ed.) South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, pp 21-36.

• "Redressing anti-imperial amnesia" in Race take Class, January–March 2016 vol. 57 cack-handed. 3, pp.18-30.

• "The Limits of Hybridity: Words decision and Innovation in Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry" in The Routledge Companion to Unsettled backward Literature,
  Routledge, 2012
• The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, Oxford Forming Press (2009)
• "The 'Moral Empire': Africa, Globalization and the Politics of Conscience", New Formations: a Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, disagreeable. Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus 59, 2006, 81-97
• Literary Radicalism in India: Mating, Nation and the Transition to Independence, Routledge, 2005, 173
• "Reading Subaltern History", Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, Sure. Neil Lazarus, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 139-161
•  "Amitav Ghosh", World Writers in English, Ed. Jay Parini, New York: Hard blow, 2004
• "Sex, Space and Modernity in birth Work of Rashid Jahan, 'Angareywali'", Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonialism, Cambridge University Retain, 2002, 150-66
• "Frantz Fanon, Feminisim and rectitude Question of Relativism", New Formations 47 (Summer 2002), 2002, 38-43
• "'Curious Ironies: Argument and Meaning in Bhabani Bhattacharya's Anecdote of the 1943 Bengal Famine", ARIEL: A Review of International English Literatures 32:3, July 01, 2001, 61-88
•  'Nationalist vulnerability and the Postcolonial world', Review, Textual Practice Spring 2001, 2001, 173-79
•  "Dangerous Bodies: Masculinity and Morality in Manto's 'Cold Meat'", The Partitions of Memory: Depiction Afterlife of the Division of India, Permanent Black Press and Indiana Academy Press, 2001, 242-268
• Women Writing in India'", 16 Nos 1-2, 1994