Dr. Srikanth Mallavarapu
Associate Professor
Department: English & Comm Studies
Office: 021 Miller Hall
540-375-4998
mallavarapu@roanoke.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. in English, August 2003, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research & Teaching Interests
The negotiation of modernity in the postcolonial context; contemporary South Asian literature and film; critical theories of literature, and of science, technology, and culture.
Recent Publications
Review of Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India. Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 70, Issue 03, August 2011, pp. 887-888.
Review of Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700—1960. Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 69, Issue 4, November 2010, pp. 1274-1276.
Review of Limiting Secularism: The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film. Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 3, August 2008, pp. 1110-1111.
“Facts, Fetishes, and the Parliament of Things: Is There Any Space Left For Critique?” (with Amit Prasad), Social Epistemology Vol. 20.2, April-June 2006, pp. 185-199.
“Disputed Bodies.” Review of Contested Bodies, Human Studies 28.1, 2005, pp. 107-112.
“1000 Years of War: Interview with Manuel De Landa” (with Ihde et al) in A. Kroker and M. Kroker, ed., Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader ( CTheory Press 2004), pp. 135-154. Originally published in CTheory, May 2003.
“Interview with Don Ihde” (with Selinger et al) in D. Ihde and E. Selinger, ed., Chasing Techno-Science: Matrix for Materiality (Indiana University Press 2003), pp.117-130.