Prof. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Global Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor in the English department at NYU, and author of several books on gender, culture, secularism, and the novel in English. She received her BA honours and MA in English from the University of Bombay, and her doctoral degree at the George Washington University, Washington DC.
She taught in colleges in India for many years, after which she moved to the University of Oxford where she was Reader in the English faculty and Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.
Her research interests include Indian writing in English, gender and secularism in South Asia, and British nineteenth-century literature. Chief among her publications are Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism (1993), and Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in Postcolonial India (2003).