Gauri Viswanathan
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| Awards | James Russell Lowell Prize (1998) Guggenheim Fellowship (1990) |
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Gauri Viswanathan (born November 5, 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
Viswanathan was born on November 5, 1950, in
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
Mellon Fellow in 1986.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Gauri Viswanathan | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
- ^ a b c d "Rediff On The NeT: Columbia Professor Wins Major Prize". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
- ^ "James Russell Lowell Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ^ "Gauri Viswanathan". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
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