Vijay Mishra
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Vijay Mishra | |
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Born | Oxford University | 4 May 1945
Occupation(s) | Academic, Author, Cultural theorist |
Employers |
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Known for | Literary and cultural studies |
Spouse | Nalini Singh |
Children | Rohan Mishra Paras Meates |
Parent(s) | Hari Mishra Lila Mishra |
Vijay Chandra Mishra (born 4 May 1945) is an academic, author and cultural theorist from Fiji. He is currently a professor at Murdoch University, Australia.
Academic and professional career
Born in Suva, Fiji on 4 May 1945 to Hari Mishra and Lila Mishra, Vijay was educated at Lelean Memorial School where he completed his Senior Cambridge Higher School Certificate in the First Division. Following this he did his New Zealand University Entrance Examination at Suva Grammar School where he won both the Arts and the History Prize. A British colonial scholarship took him to Victoria University of Wellington and to Christchurch Teachers’ College from which institutions he gained, respectively, a B.A. and a Diploma in Teaching.
After a brief teaching stint at Labasa College in Fiji from 1968 to 1969, Vijay went to Macquarie University on a Commonwealth Scholarship where he completed Masters papers in Linguistics and a B.A. with First Class Honours in English Literature. A further brief career in Fiji, this time as a Senior Education Officer, was followed by migration to Australia in 1974. By then he was married to Nalini Singh, daughter of Pratap and Damiyanti Singh.
In Australia he completed a Masters in English literature at
He returned to Murdoch University as a lecturer in Comparative Literature but three years later left for
Selected bibliography
Books
- OCLC 52729255.
- Vijay., Mishra (1994). The gothic sublime. Albany: State University of New York Press. OCLC 42855471.
- Vijay., Mishra (1998). Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime. Albany: State University of New York Press. OCLC 44960022.
- Vijay., Mishra (2002). Bollywood cinema : temples of desire. New York: Routledge. OCLC 854585609.
- Vijay., Mishra (2006). Bollywood cinema : a critical genealogy. Victoria University of Wellington. Asian Studies Institute. Wellington, N.Z.: Asian Studies Institute. OCLC 153210452.
- Vijay., Mishra (2007). Literature of the Indian diaspora : theorizing the diasporic imaginary (1. publ ed.). London [u.a.]: Routledge. OCLC 219524348.
- Vijay., Mishra (2012). What was multiculturalism? : a critical retrospect. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. OCLC 772644579.
- Mishra, Vijay (1 February 2014). "The Religious Sublime". pp. 57–76. )
Articles
- Mishra, Vijay (22 November 2009). "Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie's Hobson-Jobson". New Literary History. 40 (2): 385–410. S2CID 162138441.
- Mishra, Vijay; Hodge, Bob (23 September 2005). "What Was Postcolonialism?". New Literary History. 36 (3): 375–402. S2CID 143201853.
Citations and review
Vijay Mishra is a multidisciplinary scholar whose works are cited by scholars working in film studies, classical Indian studies, literary and cultural theories, religious studies, English literature including post colonial, diaspora and Australian literatures.[4] His books have been reviewed and critically acclaimed by scholars worldwide[5][6][7]
Awards and honors
- Raja Rao Award for Literature, Samvad Foundation, New Delhi (2008)[8]
- Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities (2009)[9]
- Christensen Professorial Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford University (Hilary Term, 2013)[10]
References
- ^ "Vijay Mishra | Universität des Saarlandes: Neue englischsprachige Kulturen". www.uni-saarland.de (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ Centre, Head; [email protected] (24 May 2010). "2011 Visiting Fellows". Humanities Research Centre. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Vijay Mishra, Professor of English Literature". profiles.murdoch.edu.au. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Vijay Mishra - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- JSTOR 1465947.
Though many Indologists have deepened their studies of literature under the influence of western aesthetic theory and postmodern approaches to critical reading, it has fallen to a professor of English to produce the first comprehensive work on South Asian religious poetry that fully cognizes European aesthetic theory.
- S2CID 142885812.
Mishra's analysis is...not only providing the most penetrating analysis yet published of the array of different approaches to the "multicultural riddle," but also proposing implicitly along the way, and explicitly in its conclusion, a radically reconceived, alternative form of multiculturalism as the desirable way forward for societies aiming to achieve justice for all citizens in terms that allow none of them to feel marginalized or alienated.
- ISSN 1920-1222.
...this remarkable book, which I venture to say is possibly the best work so far on the literature of the Indian diaspora...[Mishra] hasmade a more lasting and substantial contribution to our shared narratives and pasts than anyone I know in the home country.
- ^ "Raja Rao Annual Award 2008". Samvad India. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Fellows - Australian Academy of the Humanities". www.humanities.org.au. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Murdoch academic receives Oxford honour". media.murdoch.edu.au. Murdoch University. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2018.