Boston College teaching record

Kalpana Seshadri

Professor

English

Biography

Specializes in Postcolonial Studies and theories of contemporary Globalization and relations of power. She teaches courses pertaining to British colonialism, colonial literature and non-western literatures in English. Her research field is the Philosophy of Race and inequality, focusing on questions of subjectivity, ethics, language and law. Courses include Global Englishes; Debates and Issues in Postcolonial Studies; British Literature and Postcolonial Criticism, Fictions of Empire. Her current research deals with the inter-relation of the consumer driven global economy with the non-human.

Official evaluation summary

4.10 / 5

Based on 114 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

ENGL1080 Literature Core
Instructor rating 3.81 / 5 · Course rating 3.70 / 5 · 64 responses
Taught Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
ENGL2133 Studies in Narrative
Instructor rating 4.40 / 5 · Course rating 4.27 / 5 · 15 responses
Taught Spring 2024
ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
Instructor rating 5.00 / 5 · Course rating 4.43 / 5 · 14 responses
Taught Spring 2027, Fall 2021
ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
Instructor rating 4.27 / 5 · Course rating 4.36 / 5 · 11 responses
Taught Spring 2022
ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
Instructor rating 4.10 / 5 · Course rating 4.20 / 5 · 10 responses
Taught Summer 2026, Summer 2025, Summer 2024
ENGL7059 The Politics of Nature: Literature and Theory
Taught Spring 2027

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