Manju Jaidka

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

Manju Jaidka is a Professor of English at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, in India.

Books

Academic:

Narratives Across Borders. Cambridge Scholars, 2016. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/narratives-across-borders
Deepa Mehta's Elemental Trilogy. New Delhi: Readworthy Press, July 2011. https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Critical_Study_of_Deepa_Mehta_s_Trilog.html?id=n_x1dnrUwmsC&redir_esc=y
Landmarks in American Literature. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2007. http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=13708
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 LaItalic textnd. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1994.
Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1992.

Awards and honours

Recent:

2016: Award for Lifetime Contribution to Literature from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi.
2015 (March): Visiting Professorship, New York University.
April 2010 and April 2012: Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
March – April 2008, Jaidka was awarded the Lillian Robinson Fellowship by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Feminist Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. http://wsdb.concordia.ca/faculty-and-staff/lillian-robinson-scholars/documents/PreviousLillianRobinsonScholars_002.pdf

Her earlier international engagements are listed here:

Nov – Dec 2006: Visiting Academic, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK.
2005–07: Member, Executive Council of the International American Studies Association (IASA).
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 (sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation), Italy.
1991–92: Post-Doctoral Fulbright Research Grant, Harvard and Yale Universities, US.
Manju Jaidka is on the Editorial Boards of international journals published in the US and UK.

References / See also

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