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Gauri Viswanathan is an Indian American academic who is currently the Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University. She was born in Kolkata, India in 1950 and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia University. Her research focuses on 19th century British and colonial cultural studies. She has authored two books that have won prestigious awards and has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Gauri Viswanathan is an Indian American academic who is currently the Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University. She was born in Kolkata, India in 1950 and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia University. Her research focuses on 19th century British and colonial cultural studies. She has authored two books that have won prestigious awards and has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Gauri Viswanathan
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 Gauri Viswanathan

Awards James Russell


Viswanathan was born on November 5,
Lowell Prize (1998)
1950, in Kolkata, the daughter of UN
Guggenheim
officials.[2] She earned her bachelor's and Fellowship (1990)
master's degrees from the University of
Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia
Academic background
University.[1][2] Her research has focused on
nineteenth-century British and colonial Education University of Delhi
(BA, MA)
cultural studies.[2]
Columbia University
She is the author of Masks of Conquest: (PhD)

Literary Study and British Rule in India


Academic work
(1989), which won the James Russell Lowell
Prize from the Modern Language Discipline English literature

Association,[3] and Outside the Fold: Institutions Columbia University


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]

References

1. "Gauri Viswanathan | The Department of English and Comparative Literature" (http


s://english.columbia.edu/content/gauri-viswanathan) . english.columbia.edu.
Retrieved 2022-06-13.

2. "Rediff On The NeT: Columbia Professor Wins Major Prize" (https://www.rediff.com/n


ews/2000/jan/06us3.htm) . www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2022-06-13.

3. "James Russell Lowell Prize Winners" (https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-G

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rants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Annual-Prize-and-Award-Winners/James
-Russell-Lowell-Prize-Winners) . Modern Language Association. Retrieved
2022-06-14.

4. "Gauri Viswanathan" (https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/gauri-viswanathan/) .


John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-13.

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