2007, co-edited with Brian Morgan. Special issue of TESOL Quarterly: "Language Policies and TESOL: Perspectives from Practice."

Books

2005. The English-vernacular divide: Postcolonial language politics and practice. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

2002. The politics of TESOL education: Writing, knowledge, critical pedagogy. New York: RoutledgeFalmer/Taylor and Francis.

1997. Alzheimer discourse: Some sociolinguistic dimensions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Selected articles

Ramanathan, V., and Morgan, B. (to appear). Global warning? West-based TESOL, class blindness, and the challenge for critical pedagogies. In Farzad Sharifian (ed.), English as an international language: Perspectives and pedagogical issues. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, forthcoming.

Ramanathan, V. (to appear). Class, metanarratives, and TESOL: Hermeneutic tensions in (dis)engagement, side-stepping, and texting-researching practices. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Ramanathan, V. (2008). Applied linguistics redux: A Derridean analysis of Alzheimer life histories. Applied Linguistics, 29, 1, 1-23. [Download the pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2007). Photos as narratives, photos with narratives: Alternate textualities, minority histories and Indian histriography. Journal of Contemporary Thought, 26, 39-56. [Download the pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V., and Makoni, S. (2008). Bringing the body back in body narratives: The mislanguaging of bodies in biomedical, societal, and poststructuralist discourses on diabetes and epilepsy. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 4, 4 283-306. [Download the pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V., and Morgan, B. (2007). TESOL and policy enactments: Perspectives from practice. Introduction to special issue of TESOL Quarterly on Language Policies and TESOL. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V., and Pennycook, A. (2007). Talking across time: Postcolonial challenges to language, history, and difference. Journal of Contemporary Thought, 25, 25–53. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2007). A critical review of ELT in India. In Jim Cummins and Chris Davison (eds.), The Kluwer handbook on English language teaching.

Ramanathan, V. (2006). Of texts AND translations AND rhizomes: Postcolonial anxieties AND deracinations AND knowledge constructions. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 3(4), 223–244. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2006). Rethinking language planning and policy from the ground up: Refashioning institutional realities and human lives. Current Issues in Language Planning, 6(2), 89–101. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2006). Gandhi, non-cooperation, and socio-civic education in Gujarat, India: Harnessing the vernaculars. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 5(3), 229–250. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2006). The vernacularization of English: Crossing global currents to redress West-based TESOL. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. Special issue on Postcolonial Approaches to TESOL. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2005). Some impossibilities around researcher location: Tensions around divergent audiences, languages, social stratifications. In Situating the researcher in research texts: Dilemmas, questions, ethics, new directions. Forum. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.

Morgan, B., and Ramanathan, V. (2005). Critical literacies in language education: Global and local perspectives. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 151–169. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2005). Seepages, contact zones, and amalgam: Internationalizing TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 39(1), 119–123.

Ramanathan, V. (2004). Ambiguities about English: Ideologies and critical practice in vernacular-medium settings in Gujarat, India. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 4(1), 45–65. [Download the .pdf file here]

Ramanathan, V. (2003). Written textual production and consumption in vernacular- and English-medium settings in Gujarat, India. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12(2), 125–150.

Ramanathan, V. (2002). What does "literate in English" mean? Divergent literacy practices for English- and vernacular-medium students in Gujarat, India. Canadian Modern Language Review, 59(1), 125–151.

Ramanathan, V. (2002). Enhancing the critical edge in L2 teacher-education: Some issues in advanced literacy. In M. Schleppegrell and C. Colombi (eds.), Developing advanced literacy: Meaning with power. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ramanathan, V., Davies, C., and Schleppegrell, M. (2001). A naturalistic inquiry into the cultures of two divergent MA-TESOL programs: Some implications for TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 35(2), 279–305.

Ramanathan, V., and Kaplan, R. B. (2000). Genres, authors, discourse communities: Implications for L2 writing instructors. Journal of Second Language Writing, 9(2), 171–191.

Ramanathan, V. (1999). "English is here to stay": A critical look at institutional and educational practices in India. TESOL Quarterly, 33(2), 211–231.

Ramanathan, V., and Atkinson, D. (1999). Ethnography and L2 writing: A critical review and guide. Applied Linguistics, 21(1), 44–70.

Ramanathan, V., and Kaplan, R. B. (1997). Some problematic channels in the teaching of critical thinking in L1 composition textbooks: Some implications for L2 student-writers. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 27(2), 225–249.

Ramanathan, V., and Kaplan, R. B. (1996). Audience and voice in current freshman writing textbooks: Some implications for ESL student writers. Journal of Second Language Writing, 5(1), 21–34.

Atkinson, D., and Ramanathan, V. (1995). "Cultures of writing": An ethnographic comparison of L1 and L2 university writing programs. TESOL Quarterly, 29, 539–568.

Ramanathan, V. (1995). Schematic understanding: Evidence from Alzheimer discourse. Communication Theory, 5(3), 224–247.

Ramanathan, V. (1995). Narrative wellformedness in Alzheimer discourse: An interactional examination across settings. Journal of Pragmatics, 23, 395–419.

Ramanathan-Abbott, V. (1995). Interactional differences in Alzheimer discourse. Language in Society, 23(1), 31–58.

Ramanathan-Abbott, V. (1993). An examination of the relationship between social practices and the comprehension of narratives. Text, 13(2), 117–141.

Ramanathan, V. (1991). Frames and coherence in Sam Shepard's Fool for love. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 2(1), 49–76.