Overview

Thangam Ravindranathan is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings (Northwestern UP, January 2020); Donner le change: L'impensé animal (with Antoine Traisnel, Éditions Hermann, 2016) and Là où je ne suis pas: récits de dévoyage (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012). Her current book project, titled Unearthly Literature, inquires into literature's ways of registering environmental degradation, with a particular focus on novels and critical thought from the post-war decades.

Ravindranathan's teaching and research interests include 20th- and 21st-century literature and critical theory; narratives of travel and space; the contemporary novel; the question of the animal; literature and ecology.

Brown Affiliations

• French Studies