English Department Faculty
Kalpana Seshadri
Professor
Kalpana Seshadri
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S477
Telephone: 617-552-0598
Email: seshadrk@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., St. Francis College
- Ph.D., Tufts University
Research Interests
Postcolonial Studies; theories of contemporary Globalization and relations of power.
Expertise
- South Asia
- Language, Literature, & Linguistics
- Race, Gender, & Sexuality
Department
Biography
Specializes in Postcolonial Studies and theories of contemporary Globalization and relations of power. She teaches courses pertaining to British colonialism, colonial literature and non-western literatures in English. Her research field is the Philosophy of Race and inequality, focusing on questions of subjectivity, ethics, language and law. Courses include Global Englishes; Debates and Issues in Postcolonial Studies; British Literature and Postcolonial Criticism, Fictions of Empire. Her current research deals with the inter-relation of the consumer driven global economy with the non-human.
Publications
Books
- . University of Minnesota Press 2012 (Post-Humanities Series edited by Cary Wolfe)
- , London: Routledge 2000.
- The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial Studies Coeditor, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Selected Essays
- 鈥淩eflections on Posthumanism: What does 鈥渢he economy鈥� have to do with it?鈥澨�Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism. Vol 1, No. 1 Summer 2021
- 鈥淭here is only One Race . . .and it is White鈥� Afterword to听Lacan and Race听ed. Derek Hook and Sheldon George, NY: Routledge 2021
- 鈥淲hat the Ocean Gives Us to Think鈥澨�Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives, edited by Prasannan Parthasarathi, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, 53-62.
- 鈥淗yperbole and Ellipses: Derrida and Agamben on Sovereignty and Life鈥澨�Environmental Philosophy听April 2018听DOI:听
- 鈥淧ower as Freedom Beyond Will: Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon鈥澨�Journal of Contemporary Thought, Number 39, Summer 2014, (131-144). Special Issue on 鈥淪peaking Truth to Power.鈥�
- "" Critical Inquiry Winter 2014, Vol 40, Issue 2
- "鈥� 听Critical Inquiry, Winter 2014, Vol 40, Issue 2
- 鈥溾�� PhiloSophia: A Journal of Feminist Philosphy vol 3, No. 2 Summer 2013 听197-206
- 鈥溾�� 听Vol 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012, 167-173.
- 鈥溾�� Parallax Issue Volume 18, No. 4, pp. 67-77(11); 1 November 2012
- 鈥淭he Time of Hospitality--Again鈥� in ed. Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch (Fordham University Press, 2011) 126-144.
- 鈥淒epartures鈥� Hospitality as Mediation鈥� in (NY: Continuum Press, 2011) 45-53.
- 鈥溾�� Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Vol. 14, 1, 65鈥�73 (2009)
- 鈥溾�� Social Text 听26 (1 94): 29-58 (2008)听
- 鈥溾�� Nottingham French Studies,. Vol 46, No.3, Autumn 2007, 32-48.
- 鈥淏lackface Politics: Identity and Free Speech in Spike Lee鈥檚 Bamboozled鈥� Journal of Contemporary Thought, No. 23, Summer 2006, 177-201.
- 鈥淎fter Teresa Brennan鈥� eds. Alice A. Jardine, Shannon Lundeen and Kelly Oliver, NY; SUNY Press: 2007, 79-90.
- 鈥溾�� Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious 2003. Special Issue on 鈥淚gnorance of the Law,鈥� (97-114).
- 鈥溾�� in Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of
- Ethical and Political Thought, Volume 3, No. 1, 2003 (137-152).
- 鈥溾�� in
- Parallax Volume 8, No. 2, 2002 pp. 84-98.
- 鈥淭he Ethics of Travel鈥� in , edited by Kelly Oliver and Steve Edwin. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. 2002
- 鈥淭he Comedy of Domination: Psychoanalysis and the Conceit of Whiteness鈥� 听Discourse , 19.2 Winter 1997 (134-162.) 听reprinted in 听ed. Christopher Lane New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
- "" Ariel special issue on "Postcolonialism and its Discontents" Vol. 26:3, July 1995 (47-71).
- "." Cultural Critique No. 28: Fall 1994 (175-218).听