Departmental Resident Fellows
Funded by the Avenali Endowment, the Departmental Residencies are intended to support month-long visits by distinguished scholars, writers, artists, and others with whom Berkeley faculty and students might not otherwise have direct or sustained contact.
2009-2010 Fellows
Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan (September/October 2009)
Tamil Scholar, India
Dr. Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan is Associate Professor Emeritus at the International Institute of Tamil Studies in Chennai, India. A renowned scholar, she has made important contributions in the fields of Tamil poetry and comparative studies of Tamil and Sanskrit literature. Among other activities planned for her residency, Professor R. Vijayalakshmy’s ongoing work on Buddhism in early South India as articulated in the Tamil texts will engage Buddhist Studies faculty and students at Berkeley. She will be hosted by the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies while at Berkeley in September and October.
Dr. Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan will deliver a public lecture, entitled "The Impact of the Non-vedic Religions on the Tamils," on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:00 pm in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall.
Dai Jinhua (Spring 2010)
Center for Cultural Studies and Film Studies, Beijing University
Dai Jinhua, Director for the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Beijing University, is a foremost feminist, film scholar, media critic, and “New Left” cultural critic in China. In her widely cited Emerging from the Horizon of History, Dai introduced Lacanian feminist literary criticism to China. In the last five years, Dai has been involved in several international projects, including a feminist project to nominate one thousand women for the Nobel Peace Prize and an engaged study of China’s emerging role in the global economy. She will be hosted by the Rhetoric department while at Berkeley in spring 2010.
Resident Fellows
Patricia Barber
Charles Burnett
Sheba Chhachhi
Andrija Dimitrijevic
Didik Hadiprayitno
Wang Hui
Gareth Stedman Jones
Sunil Kumar
Tony Lawson
Daniel Mason
Ray Müller
Suman Mukherjee
Pedro Antonio Valdez