Gauri Viswanathan
Gauri Viswanathan (born November 5, 1950 in Calcutta , West Bengal ) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University (New York) and a prominent representative of postcolonial studies .
Life
Gauri Viswanathan received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the English Department of the University of Delhi . In 1985 she received her Ph.D. at Columbia University. This was followed by fellowships at the International Institute (Amsterdam) in 1998 and at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University in 2000. She is co-editor of various journals: The Irish Journal of Feminist Studies , Interventions , Jouvert and South Asia Research .
research
She initially worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Delhi. Initially she was interested in the different qualifications of students with different educational backgrounds. Faced with a gap between students in private and public schools that could not be bridged by educational intervention, their interests began to shift. Turning to the history of literature, she explored the history of English teaching in India and its significance for the colonial system. She summarizes her research results in her book Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India , which was first published in 1989.
The meeting with Edward Said , who also taught English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University , had a great effect on Gauri Viswanathan.
In Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief , she shows famous conversions as cultural criticism and political interventions. John Henry Newman , Pandita Ramabai , Annie Besant and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar are dealt with in four parts . For Outside the Fold , she received the Harry Levin Prize for Comparative Literature in 1999 .
Works
- Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. Columbia University Press, New York 1989
- Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1998
Web links
- Profile on Columbia University website
Individual evidence
- ^ Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989 limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viswanathan, Gauri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calcutta , West Bengal |