Gauri Viswanathan
{{Short description|Indian-American literary scholar}}
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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.{{Cite web |title=Gauri Viswanathan {{!}} The Department of English and Comparative Literature |url=https://english.columbia.edu/content/gauri-viswanathan |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=english.columbia.edu}}
Biography
Viswanathan was born on November 5, 1950, in Kolkata, the daughter of UN officials.{{Cite web |title=Rediff On The NeT: Columbia Professor Wins Major Prize |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jan/06us3.htm |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=www.rediff.com}} She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia University. Her research has focused on nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies.
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,{{Cite web |title=James Russell Lowell Prize Winners |url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Annual-Prize-and-Award-Winners/James-Russell-Lowell-Prize-Winners |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=Modern Language Association |language=en}} and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (1998), which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990 and was a Mellon Fellow in 1986.{{Cite web |title=Gauri Viswanathan |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/gauri-viswanathan/ |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}
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Category:Columbia University faculty
Category:Delhi University alumni
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Category:Academics from Kolkata
Category:American academics of Indian descent
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