Name: Makarand R. PARANJAPE

PRESENT POSITION and ADDRESS:   Professor of English and Chairperson, Centre for Linguistics and English, School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067,  INDIA.

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Fax: 91-11-26106025; email:  makarand@mail.jnu.ac.in

EDUCATION:    B.A.(Hons.) in English, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi.

M.A. and Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  Over twenty-five years of undergraduate/postgraduate teaching in USA and in India.

1980-1986:  Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1986-1994:  Lecturer, then Reader, University of Hyderabad (Central University)

1994-1999:  Associate Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

1999-onwards:  Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

HONOURS:

• Homi Bhabha Fellow for Literature, 1991-1993
• Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1996.
• Shastri Indo-Candian Research Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada, Summer 2000.
• Visiting Professor, Ball State University, Indiana, USA, Fall 2001.
• IFUSS Fellow, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, Summer 2002.
• Mellon Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2003 and Summer 2004.
• Coordinator, UGC Special Assistance Programme, 2003-onwards
• Joint-Coordinator, China-India intercultural dialogue, 2004-2005
• GPSS research award, 2005-2006
• Australia India Council Fellow, 2005-2006

PUBLICATIONS (in chronological order):

Books Published:

Criticism

Mysticism in Indian English Poetry. Delhi: B.R.Publishers, 1988.

Decolonization and Development:  Hind Svaraj Revisioned. New Delhi:  Sage  Publications, 1993.

Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel.  Shimla:  Indian Institute of Advanced  Study, 2000.

Poetry

The Serene Flame.  Delhi: Rupa, 1991.

Playing the Dark God.  Delhi:  Rupa, 1992.

Used Book.  New Delhi:  Indialog Publications, 2001.

Partial Disclosure.  New Delhi:  Mantra Books, 2005.

Fiction

This Time I Promise It'll Be Different:  Short Stories. New Delhi: UBS Publishers, 1994.

The Narrator:  A Novel.  New Delhi:  Rupa, 1995.

Edited Books

Indian Poetry in English. Madras: Macmillan, 1993.

An Anthology of New Indian English Poetry.  Delhi:  Rupa, 1993.

Sarojini Naidu:  Selected Poetry and Prose.  Delhi: HarperCollins India, 1993.

Sarojini Naidu:  Selected Letters.  Delhi:  Kali for Women, 1996.

Nativism:  Essays in Literary Criticism.  New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1997.

The Spirit's Manifest Home:  The Story of Sri Aurobindo Ashram-Delhi Branch.  New

Delhi:  Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1997.

The Best of Raja Rao.  New Delhi:  Katha, 1998.

The Penguin Sri Aurobindo Reader.  New Delhi:  Penguin, 1999.

              In Diaspora:  Theories, Histories, Texts.  New Delhi:  Indialog, 2001

              The Little Book of Sri Aurobindo.  New Delhi:  Penguin, 2001.

              Saundarya:  The Perception and Practice of Beauty in India.  With Harsha V.

                            Dehejia. New Delhi:  Samvad India, 2003.

              Sabda:  Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought.  With Santosh Sareen.  New Delhi:

                            Mantra Books, 2004.

              The Penguin Swami Vivekananda Reader.  New Delhi, 2005.

              The Cyclonic Swami:  Vivekananda in the West.  With Sukalyan Sengupta.  New Delhi: 

Samvad India, 2005.

              Dharma and Development:  The Future of Survival.  New Delhi:  Samvad India, 2005.

              English Studies:  Indian Perspectives.  With Amit Sarwal and Aneeta Rajendran.  New

Delhi:  Mantra Books, 2006.

Translation

Boats from the Marathi original Hodya by Hemant Govind Joglekar.  New Delhi: B.R. Publishers, 1994

Academic Papers:  Over 100 in various refereed journals and edited books published in India and abroad.

Other Publications:  Several poems and short stories; over 200 essays, book reviews, and occasional pieces in academic and popular periodicals in India and abroad.  Was a columnist in Sunday Observer, Business Standard, The Pioneer, and Life Positive.

OTHER ACTIVITIES: General Editor of a series of reprints of rare and out of print

Indian English titles published by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

Founding Editor, Evam:  Forum on Indian Representations, an international biannual journal.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:  Managing Trustee, Samvad India Foundation, Chair, CLE, JNU; member Board of Studies; member Academic Council JNU; member Vision Committee, JNU.