Gauri Viswanathan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 November 1950 |
| Awards | James Russell Lowell Prize (1998) Guggenheim Fellowship (1990) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature |
| Institutions | |
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]
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]