Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and has since taught at universities ranging from Singapore to Stanford and delivered plenary addresses worldwide from Aarhus to Xinjiang. Nair's research interests are in the fields of cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, narrative, English studies, philosophy of language, techno-cultures, literary and postcolonial theory, gender and creative writing.
Research Interest
NARRATIVE PRAGMATICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: Towards the development of a rich theory of narrative cognition, evolution and cultural production
Publications
-
"City of walls, City of Gates" in City Improbable: An Anthology of Writings on Delhi edited by Khushwant Singh, Viking Penguin, 2001 [pp. 265-286]
-
"The e-Writing on the Wall" in Angle, Inaugural Issue, Spring, 2001. pp.11-13.
-
"Singing a Nation into Being" in Seminar, Annual Issue Volume 497, January 1, 2001. pp. 95-100
