Gauri viswanathan biography

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Gauri Viswanathan, Indian, American English educator, scholar. Recipient Harry Lenin prize American Comparative Literature Association, Amanda Coomaraswamy prize Association Asian Studies; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow, 1986-1988, National Endowment of the Humanities summer fellow, 1990, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, 1990-1991, American Institute Indian Studies senior fellow, 1991, 93-94.

Background

Viswanathan, Gauri was born on November 5, 1950 in Calcutta, India. Came to the United States, 1982. Daughter of Television and Subbalakshmi Viswanathan.

Education

Bachelor, University Delhi, 1971. Master of Arts, University Delhi, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1985.

Career

Lecturer in English, U. Delhi, Delhi, India, 1978-1985; lecturer in English, Barnard College, New York City, 1985-1986; lecturer in English, Mellon fellow, Columbia University, New York City, 1986-1988; assistant Professor of English, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988-1989; associate Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, New York City, since 1989. Editorial consultant Harper Collins (World Reader), New York City, 1991-1992. Cons.Social Science Research Council (South Asian Humanities Project), New York City, 1991.

Achievements

• Gauri Viswanathan has been listed as a noteworthy English educator, scholar by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India

    (A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest...)

  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms)

    (In nineteenth-century India, Gauri Viswanathan argues, th...)

  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Studies and British Rule in India

    (In 19th century India, Viswanathan points out, the Englis...)

  • Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief

    ( Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religio...)

  • Masks of Conquest:

    (British Studies and Literature, Asian Studies)

  • (Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief) Author: Gauri Viswanathan published on (May, 1998)
  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan (2014-12-16)
  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Studies and British Rule in India by Viswanathan, Gauri (March 5, 1990) Hardcover
  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Studies and British Rule in India (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Gauri Viswanathan (1998-10-01)
  • Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
  • Outside the Fold - Conversion, Modernity, and Belief by Viswanathan, Gauri (1998) Paperback
  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms) by Viswanathan Gauri (1989-12-29) Hardcover
  • (Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India) Author: Gauri Viswanathan published on (December, 1989)
  • By Gauri Viswanathan - Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition) (2014-12-31) Paperback

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (James Russell Lowell prize, Association Asian Studies.

Connections

Father:

Television Viswanathan

Mother:

Subbalakshmi Viswanathan