Gauri Viswanathan | |
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Awards | James Russell Lowell Prize (1998) Guggenheim Fellowship (1990) |
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Discipline | English literature |
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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]
Viswanathan was born on November 5,1950,in Kolkata,the daughter of 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]
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