Rajeev Patke

Rajeev Patke is Professor of English Literature in the Department of English at the National University of Singapore, and Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Division at Yale-NUS College. He was educated at the University of Pune and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of a book on Wallace Stevens (Cambridge, 1985, rp. 2009), a book on postcolonial poetry in English (Oxford, 2006), a co-authored book on the literatures in English from SE Asia (Routledge, 2009), a book on modernist literature and postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh, 2013), and several co-edited volumes and two CDs of Singaporean poets reading from their work. He is currently working on a book with the provisional title, The Poetry of Islands and the Islands of Poetry. Singapore figures in it, as do other islands real and imagined.