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[edit] CV of Med Vehta

I've copied here the CV of Med Vehta from an earlier version of the article[1] for ready reference.--Palaeovia^talk 09:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Curriculum Vitae

Education

Arkansas School for the Blind (1949-52); Pomona College (1952-56); Balliol College, Oxford (1956-59); Harvard University (1959-61). Degrees: B.A., Pomona, 1956; B.A. (The Honours School of Modern History), Oxford, 1959; M.A. Harvard, 1961; M.A. Oxford, 1962.

Appointments

Staff writer, The New Yorker, 1961-94. Visiting Scholar, Case Western Reserve, 1974. Writer and narrator of television documentary film, “Chachaji, My Poor Relation,” PBS, 1978; BBC, 1980 (film received DuPont Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, 1977-78). Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College, 1985, 1986. Noble Foundation Visiting Professor of Art and Cultural History, Sarah Lawrence College, 1988. Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities, 1988-92. Visiting Fellow (Literature), Balliol College, Oxford, 1988-89. Visiting Professor of English, New York University, 1989-90. Rosenkranz Chair in Writing, 1990-93, Lecturer in History, 1990, 1991, 1992, and Lecturer in English, 1991-93, Yale University; Fellow, 1988-, Residential Fellow, 1990-93, Berkeley College (a constituent of Yale College). Arnold Bernhard Visiting Professor of English and History, Williams College, 1994. Randolph Visiting Distinguished Professor of English and History, Vassar College, 1994-96. Senior Fellow, Freedom Forum, Media Studies Center and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, 1996-97. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1997-98.

Awards and Honors

Phi Beta Kappa, 1955. Hazen Fellow, 1956-59. Harvard Prize Fellow, 1959-60, Residential Fellow, Eliot House, 1959-61. Guggenheim Fellow, 1971-72, 1977-78. Ford Foundation Travel and Study Grantee, 1971-76; Public Policy Grantee, 1979-82. MacArthur Prize Fellow, 1982-87. Association of Indians in America Award, 1978. Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1979-. Member, Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary, 1982. Signet medal (Harvard), 1983. Distinguished Service Award, Asian/Pacific American Library Association, 1986. New York City Mayor’s Liberty Medal, 1986. Centenary Barrows Award, Pomona College, 1987. New York Public Library Literary Lion Medal, 1990, and Literary Lion Centennial Medal, 1996. New York State Asian-American Heritage Month Award, 1991. South Asian Literary Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004. Honorary degrees: D. Ltrs., Pomona, 1972; D. Litt., Bard, 1982; D. Ltrs., Williams, 1986; D. Univ., Stirling (Scotland), 1988; Litterarum Humanarum D., Bowdoin, 1995. Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1999.

Publications

“Face to Face,” Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston, 1957, and Collins, London, 1958. (Secondary Education Annual Book Award, 1958. BBC, serial reading on Light Programme, 1958; dramatization on Home Programme, 1959.) “Walking the Indian Streets,” Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston, 1960, and Faber & Faber, London, 1961 (revised edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1971). “Fly and the Fly-Bottle,” Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1963 (second edition, Columbia University Press, New York, 1983, with introduction by Jasper Griffin). “The New Theologian,” Harper & Row, New York, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1966. “Delinquent Chacha” (fiction), Harper & Row, New York, and Collins, London, 1967. “Portrait of India,” Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1970 (second edition, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993). “John Is Easy to Please,” Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, and Secker & Warburg, London, 1971. “Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles,” The Viking Press, New York, and André Deutsch, London, 1977 (reissued, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993). “The New India,” The Viking Press, New York, and Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1978. “Photographs of Chachaji,” Oxford University Press, New York, 1980, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981. “A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers,” Oxford University Press, New York, 1982, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. “Three Stories of the Raj” (fiction), Scolar Press, Berkeley and London, 1986; “Rajiv Gandhi and Rama’s Kingdom,” Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995. “A Ved Mehta Reader: The Craft of the Essay,” Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998.

CONTINENTS OF EXILE (autobiography): “Daddyji,” Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, and Secker & Warburg, London, 1972; “Mamaji,” Oxford University Press, New York, 1979, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980; “Vedi,” Oxford University Press, New York, 1982, and Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983 (BBC, serial reading on “Book at Bedtime,” 1990); “The Ledge Between the Streams,” W.W. Norton & Company, New York, and Harvill Press, Collins, London, 1984; “Sound-Shadows of the New World,” W.W. Norton & Company, New York, and Collins, London, 1986; “The Stolen Light,” W.W. Norton & Company, New York, and Collins, London, 1989; “Up at Oxford,” W.W. Norton & Company, New York, and John Murray (Publishers), Ltd., London, 1993; “Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker,” Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, 1998 and Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 2005; “All For Love,” Granta Books, London, and, Thunder’s Mouth Press/ Nation Books, New York 2001; “Dark Harbor,” Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, New York, 2003 and Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 2005; “The Red Letters,” Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, New York, 2004 and Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 2005 (concluding volume).

Numerous editions and translations of books, articles and stories in American, British, and Indian newspapers and magazines from 1957.

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