Gauri Viswanathan
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| Born | 5 November 1950 |
| Awards | James Russell Lowell Prize (1998) Guggenheim Fellowship (1990) |
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| Discipline | English literature |
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Gauri Viswanathan (born 5 November 1950) is an Indian American academic. She is the Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.[1]
Biography
[edit]Viswanathan was born on 5 November 1950 in present-day Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. Her parents were UN officials.[2]
She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia University.[1][2] Her research has focused on nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies.[2]
She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association,[3] and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (1998), which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association.[2] She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990 and was a Mellon Fellow in 1986.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gauri Viswanathan | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Rediff On The NeT: Columbia Professor Wins Major Prize". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ "James Russell Lowell Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ "Gauri Viswanathan". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
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