Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a linguist, poet, writer and critic from India. She won the First Prize for her poem kali in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council.[1] She is currently a Professor at the Humanities and Social Sciences department of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).[2] Nair is known for being a trenchant critic of the Hindutva ideology and the religious and caste discrimination that it promotes.

Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields
  • Linguistics
  • Cognition
  • Literary theory
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (present)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
National University of Singapore
University of Washington at Seattle
Websitesites.google.com/site/rukminibhayanairshomepage/

Biography

Rukmini Bhaya Nair received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1982 and a second honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2006.

Nair was Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Stanford University, in 2005–2006 and has also taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the National University of Singapore and the University of Washington at Seattle. Academic books by Nair include Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom (Harper Collins, 1997); Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture (Oxford University Press and Routledge, London and New York, 2003); Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: the Idea of Indifference (Minnesota University Press and Oxford University Press, India, 2002); as well as an edited volume, Translation, Text and Theory: the Paradigm of India (Sage, 2002).

Her work has appeared in Penguin New Writing in India (1992), in the anthology Mosaic, featuring award-winning writers from the U.K and India (1999), in Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (2002) and special issues of Poetry International (2004) and Fulcrum (2006). It has been translated into German, Swedish and Macedonian. The year 2000 saw Nair selected as a 'Face of the Millennium' in a national survey of writers by India Today.[3]

Nair's writings, both creative and critical, are taught on courses at universities such as Chicago, Toronto Kent, Oxford and Washington, and she contends that she writes poetry for the same reason that she does research in cognitive linguistics – to discover the limits of language.[4][5]

Bibliography

Books
  • Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century. (Co-Editor). Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. ISBN 9781350039278
  • Mad Girl's Love Song. (A novel). New Delhi: Harper Collins, India 2013. ISBN 9789350296479
  • Poetry in a Time of Terror: Essays in the Postcolonial Preternatural. Oxford University Press, New Delhi and New York 2009.
  • Yellow Hibiscus. (New & Selected Poems). New Delhi: Penguin Books, India 2004. ISBN 978-0-14302-883-3
  • Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture.. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, London 2003. ISBN 0-415-30735-X
  • Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: the Idea of Indifference. University of Minnesota Press, USA; and Oxford University Press, India; 2002.
  • Translation, Text and Theory: the Paradigm of India. Edited: Sage, New Delhi, India; Thousand Oaks, USA; and London, UK; 2002.
  • The Ayodhya Cantos. (Poetry in English). New Delhi: Penguin Books, India 1999. ISBN 978-0-67088-840-5
  • Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom. New Delhi: Harper Collins, India 1997. ISBN 978-817223-273-3
  • The Hyoid Bone. (Poetry in English). New Delhi: Penguin Books, India 1992. ISBN 978-0-670-84029-8

Essays

See also

References
  1. "Second National Poetry Competition – Prize winning poems".
  2. "Faculty - r-b-nair | Humanities & Social Sciences". hss.iitd.ac.in. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  3. "Literature: Special Series; Faces of the Millennium".
  4. http://hss.iitd.ac.in/content/prof-rukmini-bhaya-nair
  5. "IIT Delhi Portal – Rukmini Bhaya Nair".
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