Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, born 1949[1]) is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
[2] He is a postcolonial theorist and literary critic.
Radhakrishnan earned his PhD in 1983 from Binghamton University.
[3] He moved to UC Irvine from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2004–2005 academic year.
[4] Radhakrishnan is the 2020 winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the South Asian Literary Association.