Talk:Prof Timothy Brennan

By Sachi Anjunkar

Timothy Andres Brennan is a Professor at Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of English at University of Minnesota as of April 2024. According to his university profile, he works on the relationship between comparative literature, world literature, and global English.

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India or Hindu Dharma

1. Brennan, Timothy. Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies. Stanford University Press, 2014.
2. Brennan, Timothy. Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz. Verso, 2008.
3. Brennan, Timothy. Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right. Columbia University Press, 2006.
4. Brennan, Timothy. At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
5. Brennan, Timothy. Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation. London: Macmillan, 1989.
6. Brennan, Timothy. "Running and Dodging: The Rhetoric of Doubleness in Contemporary Theory." New Literary History 41:2 (Spring 2010) (2010): 277-301.
7. Brennan, Timothy. "Intellectual Labor." South Atlantic Quarterly 108:2 (Spring 2009) (2009): 395-415.
8. Brennan, Timothy. "Postcolonial Studies and Globalization Theory." The Postcolonial and the Global (2007): 48-69.
9. Brennan, Timothy. "Left, Right, and Muddle." The Chronicle Review June 9, 2006 (2006): B16.
10. Brennan, Timothy, Keya Ganguly. "Crude Wars." South Atlantic Quarterly 105:1 (Winter 2006) (2006): 24-37.
11. Brennan, Timothy. "The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery." Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005): 101-24.
12. Brennan, Timothy. "The Subtlety of Caesar." Interventions 5:2 (Fall 2003) (2003): 200-206.
13. Brennan, Timothy. "Global Youth and Local Pleasure." Rebel Musics (2003): 209-31.
14. Brennan, Timothy. "Postcolonial Studies Between the European Wars: An Intellectual History." Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002): 185-203.
15. Brennan, Timothy. "World Music Does Not Exist." Discourse 23:1 (Winter 2001) (2001): 44-62.
16. Brennan, Timothy. "Digital Humanities Bust." The Chronicle of Higher Education (2017).
17. Brennan, Timothy. "The Free Impersonality of Bourgeois Spirit." Biography 37:1 (2014).
18. Brennan, Timothy. "The Case Against Irony." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49 (2014).