Prof. P.P. Raveendran
Prof. P.P. Raveendran is a critic and academic, has specialized in modern literature, Indian literature, and cultural studies. He was the Director, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
P.P. Raveendran, An active bilingual critic, his most recent publication is The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Malayalam Literature (2017), a 2-volume co-edited work that brings together Malayalam literature of the last 120 years in translation. His critical study of Kamala Das too appeared under the Sahitya Akademi imprint in 2017. His other published books in English include Texts Histories Geographies: Reading Indian Literature (2009), OV Vijayan (2009), Joseph Mundasseri (2002), Postmodernism: Positions and Perspectives (2000), and Poetry and the New Sensibility (1996), as well as the edited volumes of poetry by Attoor Ravivarma and Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan translated by him under the respective titles, The Non-Resident Indian and Other Poems (2015) and The Cat Is My Grief Today and Other Poems (2009). The Best of Jayanta Mahapatra (1995) and The Best of Kamala Das (1991) are two other well-known volumes edited by him. His critical works in Malayalam are Adhunikatayude Pinnampuram [Modernity’s Backyard, 2017], Etirezhuttukal [Counter-writings 2013], Veendeduppukal [Recoveries, 2006], Samskara Padhanam [Cultural Studies, 2002], Adhunikanantaram [After Modernism, 1999], Michel Foucault [1998] and Edapedalukal [Interventions, 1997]. A contributor to the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), Raveendran has published extensively in India and abroad, including in such journals as American Notes and Queries (ANQ), Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Literature, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. As editor/co-editor of Haritham: Journal of the School of Letters, he has put together 21 issues of the journal devoted to literary studies. A former Post-doctoral Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University (Germany), he has held such positions as Dean, Faculty of Language and Literature, Mahatma Gandhi University, Dean, Faculty of Aesthetics and Art History, Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed to be University for Art and Culture, Dean, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, and Professor and Director, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. He was a member the Syndicate of Mahatma Gandhi University and the Executive Board of the Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed to be University for Art and Culture. He has served on the General Council of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
Official Address:
Professor and Director(former),
School of Letters,
Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam,
Kerala, India.
Residencial Address:
‘Aksharam’,
S.H. Mount P.O.,
Kottayam, Kerala.
PIN: , 686 006
Phone:+91 481 2312699
E-Mail:raveendranpp@gmail.com