Portrait of Kalpana Seshadri
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 BC profile

Official evaluation summary

3.94 / 5

Based on 89 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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