Asha Varadharajan

Asha Varadharajan

Asha Varadharajan (http://ashavaradharajan.org) is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University in Canada.  She is the author of Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak. Her current research reconceptualizes the category of the refugee and the realm of “refugeedom.”  Her most recent publications comment on the crisis of the humanities, the subaltern in contemporaneity, violence against women and the discourse of human rights, decolonizing pedagogy, postcolonial temporalities, humanitarian intervention, and the legacy of The Frankfurt School.  The most fun she has had writing was while composing her entry on Eric Idle for the Dictionary of Literary Biography. The most chuffed she has been lately was when her students nominated her for the W.J. Barnes Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

At ELS 2020, Dr. Varadharajan will deliver a talk on Making History Rhyme with Hope: Revisioning Race in and For Our Times.