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===Early life and education=== | ===Early life and education=== | ||
Dr. Mehta holds a Master's degree and Ph.D. in English Literature and South Asian Studies and is a gold medallist from | Dr. Mehta holds a Master's degree and Ph.D. in English Literature and South Asian Studies and is a gold medallist from Jadavpur University Calcutta. At the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, her Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Retrieving Precolonial Identity through the Images of the Divine Feminine in Waterscapes of Postcolonial Fiction." | ||
== Academic career == | == Academic career == | ||
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===Journalistic career=== | ===Journalistic career=== | ||
Journalist Grade A1, in the early-1980s in the | Journalist Grade A1, in the early-1980s in the Australian Public Service, Canberra. Worked for two ministries --Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia) (that dealt mainly with Australian Vietnam War Veterans), and the Ministry of Science and Technology. | ||
Editor, ''Technocrat'', a technology and business magazine of the Sterling Newspaper group, | Editor, ''Technocrat'', a technology and business magazine of the Sterling Newspaper group, Bombay, in the mid-1980s. | ||
Editor, ''Connoisseur's Asia'', a | Editor, ''Connoisseur's Asia'', a Singapore-based literary, arts and culture magazine, in the early 1990s. | ||
Features Editor, ''Times Periodicals'', Singapore, in the mid-1990s. | Features Editor, ''Times Periodicals'', Singapore, in the mid-1990s. | ||
Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of | Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of Booker Prize winners and celebrated authors such as Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Norman Mailer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Christopher J. Koch and many others. Julie was also a feature writer on religion, arts, and cultures of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, India and Cambodia; and columnist for The Nation, Bangkok, and The Straits Times, Singapore. | ||
===Marriage and children=== | ===Marriage and children=== | ||
She is married to journalist and author | She is married to journalist and author Harish C. Mehta. | ||
==Published works== | ==Published works== | ||
*''Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia'' co-authored with | *''Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia'' co-authored with Harish C. Mehta (Graham Brash, 1999) | ||
*''Dance of Life: The Mythology, History, and Politics of Cambodian Culture'' (Graham Brash, 2001) | *''Dance of Life: The Mythology, History, and Politics of Cambodian Culture'' (Graham Brash, 2001) | ||
* Bangkok: A Walk Through the Market. Bangkok: A&M Media, 2002. | * Bangkok: A Walk Through the Market. Bangkok: A&M Media, 2002. | ||