Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv 1965-

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ROBERTS, Daniel Sanjiv 1965-

PERSONAL: Born May 31, 1965, in Hyderabad, India; son of Harry (a professor of philosophy) and Joan (a teacher; maiden name, Boares) Roberts; married August 1, 1989; wife's name, Satya (a British Council officer); children: Syamala, Tanvi. Ethnicity: "Indian." Education: Attended Madras Christian College, 1982–85, University of Hyderabad, 1985–87, and Cambridge University, 1990–95. Politics: "Leftist." Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Office—School of English, Queen's University, 2 University Sq., Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Loyola College, Madras, India, lecturer, 1987–88; Orient Longman, Hyderabad, India, assistant editor, 1996; University of Manchester, Manchester, England, research fellow, 1996–99; Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, fellow and lecturer in English, 1999–.

MEMBER: British Association of Romantic Studies.

AWARDS, HONORS: Nehru scholar, 1990.

WRITINGS:

Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument, Liverpool University Press (Liverpool, England), 2000.

(Editor) Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographic Sketches, Pickering & Chatto (London, England), 2003.

(Editor) Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1793–1810, Volume 4: The Curse of Kehama, Pickering & Chatto (London, England), 2004.

Contributor to periodicals, including Studies in Romanticism, Notes and Queries, English Language Notes, and Transactions of the Westmorland and Cumberland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

SIDELIGHTS: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts told CA: "My principal areas of interest are in Romantic literature (especially with regard to topics such as the Lake writers, magazine writers, addiction, autobiography, language theory, orientalism, and canonicity, as well as authors such as Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey) and postcolonial literature (particularly nationalist constructions of India and modern Indian literature). The postcolonial legacy of British imperialism in India is the point of intersection between my interests in Romanticism and Indian literature in English."