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Himani Bannerji was born in Bangladesh in 1942 when it was still part of India. She earned a B.A. from Visva Bharati University and a M.A. in 1965 from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. In the same year she was hired as a lecturer in the university's Department of English. In 1969, she came to Canada and completed a M.A. in English at the University of Toronto. She began her teaching career in Canada as a part-time instructor at Atkinson College (York University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?2227136&uuid=f7ce5f79-a24f-4a5b-a3a4-91e4d559be35 | Himani Bannerji was born in Bangladesh in 1942 when it was still part of India. She earned a B.A. from Visva Bharati University and a M.A. in 1965 from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. In the same year she was hired as a lecturer in the university's Department of English. In 1969, she came to Canada and completed a M.A. in English at the University of Toronto. She began her teaching career in Canada as a part-time instructor at Atkinson College (York University). She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. [http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?2227136&uuid=f7ce5f79-a24f-4a5b-a3a4-91e4d559be35] | ||
Dr. Bannerji is perhaps best known for her non-fiction writing in areas such as feminism, racism and multiculturalism. She is a Professor in The Department of Sociology at York University. Her research and writing life extends between Canada and India. Her interests encompass anti-racist feminism, Marxism, critical cultural theories and historical sociology. She has done extensive research and writing on patriarchy and class formation in colonial India as well as in different strands of nationalism, cultural identity and politics in India. | Dr. Bannerji is perhaps best known for her non-fiction writing in areas such as feminism, racism and multiculturalism. She is a Professor in The Department of Sociology at York University. Her research and writing life extends between Canada and India. Her interests encompass anti-racist feminism, Marxism, critical cultural theories and historical sociology. She has done extensive research and writing on patriarchy and class formation in colonial India as well as in different strands of nationalism, cultural identity and politics in India. | ||
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She has taught in Delhi University, Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, School of Women’s Studies and Department of Comparative Literature, and Calcutta University, School of Women’s Studies, on a regular basis. Dr. Bannerji has been awarded the Tagore Memorial Prize (Rabindra Smriti Puraskar) from the Government of West Bengal’s literary academy for her work on social and cultural history of Bengal. | She has taught in Delhi University, Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, School of Women’s Studies and Department of Comparative Literature, and Calcutta University, School of Women’s Studies, on a regular basis. Dr. Bannerji has been awarded the Tagore Memorial Prize (Rabindra Smriti Puraskar) from the Government of West Bengal’s literary academy for her work on social and cultural history of Bengal. | ||
Bannerji has presented as a keynote and plenary speaker on numerous occasions, including as the keynote for the all-India body of Rammohan Roy Library Foundations. She has taught the core course on South Asia in York’s South Asia Studies Programme for a number of years, and continues to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to South Asian colonial and post-colonial writings. Her graduate courses, Theorizing Modernity and Social and Moral Regulations, also concentrate on the question of different modernities in post-colonial societies. | Bannerji has presented as a keynote and plenary speaker on numerous occasions, including as the keynote for the all-India body of Rammohan Roy Library Foundations. She has taught the core course on South Asia in York’s South Asia Studies Programme for a number of years, and continues to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to South Asian colonial and post-colonial writings. Her graduate courses, Theorizing Modernity and Social and Moral Regulations, also concentrate on the question of different modernities in post-colonial societies. | ||
Her poems have been published in ''CVII, DEscant, Landscape, Rikka, Asianadian, Toronto South Asian Review, Fireweed, Borderlines, Canadian Woman Studies, Frank, Setu, and Indian Literature.'' | |||
'''Notables:''' | |||
Building from Marx: Reflections on “race”, gender and class http://davidmcnally.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bannerji.buildingfrommarx.pdf | ''Rebuilding the left.'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmRHpmTXpE] | ||
''The Other Family.'' [http://myclass.peelschools.org/sec/9/11032/Resources/Short%20Story/Fiction%20Short%20Stories/The%20Other%20Family%20by%20Himani%20Bannerji.PDF] | |||
''Building from Marx: Reflections on “race”, gender and class.'' [http://davidmcnally.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bannerji.buildingfrommarx.pdf] | |||