Dr. Tilottama Rajan

Tilottama Rajan's achievements span two fields, Romanticism and Critical Theory. She has published two major books, "Dark Interpreter:The Discourse of Romanticism" (Cornell, 1980), and "The Supplement of Reading" (Cornell, 1990), has edited three other books, and he published over fifty articles first presented at over a hundred conferences or campuses on four continents. The M.L.A.'s current guide to research on the Romantics lists "Dark Interpreter" as a companion-work to M.H.Abrams' "Natural Supernaturalisim". Her scholarship has a three-part excellence: she is a penetrating interpreter and analyst of 19th century texts, bringing a historical understanding of the period to her work; she stimulates discourse in her field by raising pertinent questions and provides an advanced theory of reading; and she places the procedures of post-structuralist criticism into a historical setting.