Swami Vivekananda

Rakesh Tripathi is a Vivekananda scholar with a keen interest in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature. He has an MA and MPhil in English (Linguistics and Phonetics) and has completed his doctoral studies in English on Swami Vivekananda's speeches. His research interests are discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics and English language teaching. He specialises in systemic functional linguistics and has extensively worked in this area. Professor Tripathi started his career as a general linguistics lecturer at the Lucknow Christian PG College and later on moved to Odisha where he acquired a rich experience of teaching courses on language and literature with a focus on practical skill development, using innovative teaching techniques. In 2009, Dr Tripathi was invited to ISFC 2009 at Beijing for a discussion on the historical Chicago lecture of Swami Vivekananda. He is a life member of the Systemic-Functional Linguistics Association and the Linguistic Society of India. Besides teaching, Dr Tripathi leads the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Sri Sri University, Cuttack, and is the editor of SSU Insight, the quarterly newsletter of the university with a global readership. He lives with his family in Bhubaneswar.