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- Meera Viswanathan was born in India, and immigrated to the United States in 1961 to join her father, who had moved to Los Angeles two years before to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering at UCLA. Having earned her BA, MA, and PhD from Stanford University, Dr. Viswanathan's academic research is in classical Japanese poetry and prose, Western medieval court literature, and comparative poetics. She is Associate Professor Emerita of East Asian Studies and Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Brown University, as well as Head of School at the Ethel Walker School. Dr. Viswanathan and her husband, Dr. Eric Widmer, cofounded King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, the Middle East's first coeducational preparatory boarding school with financial aid. Dr. Viswanathan held the Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa Distinguished Chair in the Theory and Practice of Knowledge in 2007 as King Academy's principal architect of curriculum, and was also dean of faculty there. Dr. Viswanathan was awarded the King Hussein Medal, Jordan's highest honor, for her work. Dr. Viswanathan also received the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities from Brown University 1994-1996.
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- Biographical note: Meera Viswanathan was born in India, and immigrated to the United States in 1961 to join her father, who had moved to Los Angeles two years before to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering at UCLA. Having earned her BA, MA, and PhD from Stanford University, Dr. Viswanathan's academic research is in classical Japanese poetry and prose, Western medieval court literature, and comparative poetics. She is Associate Professor Emerita of East Asian Studies and Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Brown University, as well as Head of School at the Ethel Walker School. Dr. Viswanathan and her husband, Dr. Eric Widmer, cofounded King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, the Middle East's first coeducational preparatory boarding school with financial aid. Dr. Viswanathan held the Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa Distinguished Chair in the Theory and Practice of Knowledge in 2007 as King Academy's principal architect of curriculum, and was also dean of faculty there. Dr. Viswanathan was awarded the King Hussein Medal, Jordan's highest honor, for her work. Dr. Viswanathan also received the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities from Brown University 1994-1996.
Citation
"Meera S. Viswanathan, faculty"
(1989).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:712519/
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...