Gauri Viswanathan

{{Short description|Indian-American literary scholar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|11|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Calcutta (now Kolkata),<br/>West Bengal, India | death_date = | discipline = English literature | education = {{Plain list| * University of Delhi (BA, MA) * Columbia University (PhD) }} | image = | workplaces = {{Plain list| * Columbia University }} | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = | awards = James Russell Lowell Prize (1998)<br />Guggenheim Fellowship (1990) }}'''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.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>

== Biography == Viswanathan was born on 5 November 1950 in present-day Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. Her parents were UN officials.<ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref>

She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delhi and her doctorate from Columbia University.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Her research has focused on nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies.<ref name=":1" />

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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief'' (1998), which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association.<ref name=":1" /> She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990 and was a Mellon Fellow in 1986.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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