Books and Book-Length Works
Oxford History of Poetry in English.
Patrick Cheney, General Editor. Coordinating Editors: Vinay Dharwadker, Robert R. Edwards, Langdon Hammer, Laura L. Knoppers, and Stephen Regen. 14 vols. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022–23.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature.
H. Martin Puchner, General Editor. Editors: Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Vinay Dharwadker, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, and Emily Wilson. 6 vols. W.W. Norton. 4th ed., 2018. 3rd ed., 2012.
Kalidasa: Abhijnanashakuntalam. The Recognition of Shakuntala.
Vinay Dharwadker. Translated from the Sanskrit and Prakrit, with an Afterword and Notes. Penguin Classics, 2016.
383 pages.
ISBN 978 0 670 08746 4. Penguin Classics Boxed Set, Penguin India, 2017.
Mohan Rakesh: One Day in the Season of Rain.
Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker. Translated from Hindi, with an Introduction, an Afterword, and Notes. Penguin Modern Classics, 2014.
287 pages.
ISBN 978 0 670 08802 2.
EISBN 978 9 352 14012 1.
Kabir: The Weaver’s Songs.
Vinay Dharwadker. Translated and with an Introduction and Notes. Penguin Classics, 2003, 2005.
322 pages.
ISBN 0 14 302968 1.
Winner, 2007 Translation Prize in English, Sahitya Akademi (India’s national academy of letters), New Delhi.
Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture.
Vinay Dharwadker, ed. Essays from the English Institute. Routledge, 2001, 2004. 239 pages.
ISBN 0 415 92506 1.
Essays
“Translation of Secular Indian Poetry in the Twentieth Century.” In The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Peter France and Stuart Gillespie, General Editors. 5 vols. Volume 5: 1901 –2000. Edited by Lawrence Venuti. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Mumbai’s Marathi Modernists: A Memoir from the Margins.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, nos. 1–2 (2017), pp. 88–107.
Accompanied by portfolio of translations of sixteen poems by six major poets in Marathi.
“Emotion in Motion: The Natyashastra, Darwin, and Affect Theory.” PMLA, vol. 130, no. 5 (October 2015), pp. 1381–1404.
“Afterword: The Poetry of the Mahabharata.” In Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Carole Satyamurti. Foreword by Wendy Doniger, Afterword by Vinay Dharwadker. W. W. Norton, 2015. pp. 845–63.
Awarded the first Roehampton Poetry Prize, U.K., 2015.
“The Modernist Novel in India: Paradigms and Practices.” In A History of the Indian Novel in English. Edited by Ulka Anjaria. Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. 103–18.
“Modernism and Its Four Phases: Literature in South Asia.” In The Modernist World. Edited by Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren. Routledge, 2015. pp. 127–35.
“Censoring the Ramayana.” Invited Guest Column. PMLA, vol. 127, no. 3 (May 2012), pp. 433–50.
“Constructions of World Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial India.” In The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Edited by Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, and Djelal Kadir. Routledge, 2012. pp. 476–86.
“Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism. Edited by Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka. Ashgate, 2011. pp. 125–44.
“The Historical Formation of Indian-English Literature.” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Edited by Sheldon Pollock. University of California Press, 2003. pp. 199–267.
“English in India and Indian-English Literature: The Early History, 1579–1834.” Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 39, no. 2 (2002), pp. 93–119.
“A.K. Ramanujan’s Theory and Practice of Translation.” In Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. Edited by Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi. Routledge, 1999. pp. 114–40.
“Print Culture and Literary Markets in Colonial India.” In Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. Edited by Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy Vickers. Routledge, 1997. pp. 108–33.
“Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures.” In Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia. Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. pp. 158–85.
“Critical Multiculturalism.” By the Chicago Cultural Studies Group (Lauren Berlant, Vinay Dharwadker, Dilip Gaonkar, Benjamin Lee, Katie Trumpener, Michael Warner, and others). Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 3 (1992), pp. 530–55.
Poetry
Translations
Select Anthologies
Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (2010)
Both Sides of the Sky (2009)
Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008)
60 Indian Poets (2008)
Confronting Love (Penguin, 2005)
The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994)
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (1984)
Select Literary Magazines
The Kenyon Review
The Hudson Review
Cumberland Poetry Review
Fulcrum (U.S.A.)
London Magazine (U.K.)
Ariel, Toronto South Asia Review (Canada)
World Literature Written in English (Singapore)
Indian Literature
New Quest
The Illustrated Weekly of India (India)
Full-Length Plays
Kalidasa’s The Recognition of Shakuntala (Penguin Classics, 2016; classical Sanskrit)
Mohan Rakesh’s One Day in the Season of Rain (Penguin Modern Classics, 2014; modern Hindi; co-translated with Aparna Dharwadker)
Modern Marathi, Hindi, and Urdu Prose
Twelve translated essays (both sole translator and co-translator), in A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present, ed. Aparna Dharwadker (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Sanskrit Poetry (Anthologies and Periodicals)
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 3rd and 4th eds. (2012, 2018)
Banaras and Other Poems by Kedarnath Singh (Sahitya Akademi, 2015)
Language for a New Century (Norton, 2007)
Bedford Introduction to Literature (2001)
It’s a Woman’s World (Dutton, 2000)
World Poetry (Norton, 1998)
The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994)
Penguin New Writing in India (1994)
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
World Literature Today
Chicago Review
Public Culture
Daedalus
New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly
Translation
the minnesota review
London Magazine
Indian Literature
Tri-Quarterly 77 (1989–90) (Book-length selection of modern Hindi and Marathi poems, with commentary)