Assistant Professor

Department of Arts & Sciences

(o) 518.694.7340
chandrar@acp.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California

Courses Taught at ACP:
Suicide and Madness and/as Literature
Changing Images of Asia
The Short Story,
Humanities I, II, III
Health Care and Human Values
Principles of Communication

Awards:

Named ACP Traditional Teacher of the Year in 2005-06 and 2007-08

Research Interests:
South and Southeast Asian literature, history and politics, translations of Malay-Indonesian literature into English, bioethics in the developing world

Recent Publications:
Water, Development, and State Security in South Asia: Scenarios for China and India, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 6.3 (Summer 2006)

Book: Stories from Jakarta (trans. by Nusantara Translation Group). Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Introduced by Benedict Anderson. SEA Press, Cornell University, Ithaca New York, 1999

Book: Magical Selves: Anthology of Malay Women Writers (1930-1990)
Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Ray Chandrasekara
Forward by Christine Campbell (forthcoming), SEA Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York