Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney 1951-

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Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born 1951. Education: University of Delhi, B.A., 1971, M.A., 1973; Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1980.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Oberlin College, 10 N. Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1095. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, Donald R. Longman Professor of English, 1989—.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Carol Maier, and contributor) Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-cultural Texts, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1995.

Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South-Asian Diasporas, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, contributor, and coauthor of introduction) The Crisis of Secularism in India, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Reading Rushdie: Perspectives on the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, edited by D.M. Fletcher, Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1994. Contributor to academic journals, including Massachusetts Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Socialist Review.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ariel, April, 2001, John Clement Ball, review of Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South-Asian Diasporas, pp. 174-176.

Callaloo, spring, 2002, Sonita Sarker, review of Using the Master's Tools, p. 697.

Choice, November, 2000, K. Tololyan, review of Using the Master's Tools, p. 535.

Journal of Asian Studies, August, 2001, Josna E. Rege, review of Using the Master's Tools, p. 826.

Reference & Research Book News, November, 2000, review of Using the Master's Tools, p. 170.

Research in African Literatures, winter, 2002, Robert Eric Livingston, review of Using the Master's Tools, p. 219.