Manju Jaidka

Manju Jaidka
Born	Haryana, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Professor
Employer	SRM University

Manju Jaidka is an Indian author, known for her contribution to American Studies in India. ^[1] she contributed critical works that are widely acknowledged as standard references. ^[2] she was chairperson and professor at Panjab University, in Chandigarh, India. ^[2] She is President of MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World).

Books

• Jaidka, Manju; Dhar, Tej N. (2023). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-032-24557-7. ^[3]
• When Cato Played Cupid and Other Stories. Petals Publishers, 2022.
• Gumshoe Mania: A Novel. Vishwakarma Publishing House, November 2021.
• Covid’s Metamorphosis: Stories from our Corona Times. Amazon Kindle publication, Sept 2020.
• Saudade. Poetry collection. Sapatrishi Publications, Chandigarh. December 2019.
• Amaltas Avenue: A Novel. New Delhi: Lifi Publishers, June 2014.
• For Reasons Unknown. Poetry anthology. Allahabad: Cyberwit. Jan 2013.
• Scandal Point: A Novel. New Delhi: Rupa Publishers. Dec 2011.
• Spots of Time: A Novel. Chandigarh: Graphit India. Oct 2007
• The Seduction and Betrayal of Cat Whiskers: An Academic Satire. Chandigarh: Graphit India. Oct 2007. Rpt Jan 2013.
• Ed. Vignettes: Anthology of Short Stories by Women (translated from Hindi) for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. 2018.
• The Next Milestone Nov 2016 (on management of disability). Print edition, March 2017.
• Essays on American Literature: Signposts and Landmarks. Arun Publishing House, Chandigarh. January 2021.
• Narratives Across Borders. Cambridge Scholars, 2016. ^[4]
• Deepa Mehta's Elemental Trilogy. New Delhi: Readworthy Press, July 2011. ^[5]
• Landmarks in American Literature. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2007. ^[6]
• Politics of Location in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas, co-edited with Anil Raina (Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 2003).
• An Annotated Anthology of English and American Poetry (University Grants Commission Text Book Award). Chandigarh: Panjab University Publication Bureau, 2002.
• Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of America, eds. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, Somdatta Mandal and Vijay Kumar Sharma. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2002
• From Slant to Straight: Recent Trends in Women's Poetry. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2000.
• T. S. Eliot's Use of Popular Sources (Mellen Press, US, 1997). This was her Post-Doctoral Fulbright project for which research was carried out at the Houghton (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Beinecke (Yale), Harry Ramson Centre (Austin, Texas), and New York Public Library.
• Tiresias and Other Masks: English and American Poetry after The Waste Land. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1994.
• Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1992.

Awards and honours

• 2016: Award for Lifetime Contribution to Literature from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. ^{[7] [8]}
• 2008, The Lillian Robinson Fellowship by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Feminist Studies, Concordia University. ^[9]
• 2011-13: Associate Scholar, Indian Institute of Advances Study, Shimla,
• 2008: Award for Creative Excellence by First Friday Forum, Chandigarh
• 1998-99: International Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, at the International Forum for US Studies, University of Iowa.
• 1996, April–May: Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar Workshop on “Themes in Contemporary American Literature” (April 1996) sponsored by USIA, Washington.
• 1995, September–October: Resident Fellowship, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy. (sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation)
• 1991-92: Post-Doctoral Fulbright Research Grant, Harvard and Yale Universities, USA. (sponsored by USEFI)
• 1994: Awarded University Grants Commission Text Book Grant.
• 1991 March: Olive I. Reddick (Sr.) Award for the best literature paper presented at the annual conference of the Indian Association for American Studies, Bombay.
• 1989 August: William Mulder Research Grant from ASRC, Hyderabad.

References

1. "Book Nook: Writer-educator Manju Jaidka's anthology captures 'shades of human emotions and life's realities'". The Indian Express. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
2. "An effort to make the city a literary hub". India Today. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
3. Jaidka, Manju; Dhar, Tej N. (2023). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-032-24557-7.
4. Jaidka, Manju (2016). Narratives across borders. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. ISBN   978-1-4438-8811-0.
5. Jaidka, Manju (29 July 2011). A Critical Study of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy Fire, Earth and Water: Fire, Earth and Water. Readworthy. ISBN   978-93-5018-106-5.
6. Sequeira, Isaac (2007). Landmarks in American Literature: History in the Making. Prestige Books. ISBN   978-81-7551-199-6.
7. Service, Tribune News. "10 authors felicitated with Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi award". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
8. Service, Tribune News. "Flash mob". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
9. Jaidka, Manju (29 July 2011). A Critical Study of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy Fire, Earth and Water: Fire, Earth and Water. Readworthy. ISBN   978-93-5018-106-5.