Julie Mehta
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Julie B. Mehta teaches at University College
, University of Toronto
. Her course, Asian Cultures in Canada, is endowed by Chancellor Emerita Senator Vivienne Poy
. Mehta is an author and journalist specializing in Southeast Asia
.
Calcutta.http://www.iar.ubc.ca/bulletin/seminars2000.html 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."
2006-Dec 2011 Lecturer, “Asian Cultures and Literatures in Canada.” (UNI307Y), Canadian Studies, University of Toronto).
Jan-Apr 2011 Lecturer, “Single Indian Writer Premchand” (HIND 3610, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto).
Winter 2010 Course Instructor, ENGB05, Critically Thinking about Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Fall 2009 Course Instructor, ENGD57H3 F (final year English Specialist Students), In-depth Study of the works of a Single Canadian Author “Michael Ondaatje: Narrator as the Private I.” Department of English, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Summer 2009 Course Instructor, Effective Writing, Department of English, University of Toronto.
Course Instructor, Critical Essay Writing Skills, Department of English, University of Toronto.
, Canberra. Worked for two ministries -- Ministry of Veterans' Affairs
(that dealt mainly with Vietnam War Veterans), and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Editor, Technocrat, a technology and business magazine of the Sterling Newspaper group, Bombay, in the mid-1980s.
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.
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.
Translation for Theatre
Member, Translation Unit, Pleiades Theatre, Toronto: Translated Rabindranath Tagore’s play, The Post Office, from Bengali to English. The play was performed in Toronto in May 7 –June 4, 2011, as the Year of India in Canada celebrations.
Book Chapters:
“Ondaatje’s Impertinent Voices: Tracking Family Ties to Remember History.” In Australasia-Asia: Change, Conflict and Convergence. Ed. Cynthia van den Dreissen. Swan-Longmans, 2010.
“Reconfiguring the Feminine: The Real, Reel, and Riel Life of Neang Seda (Sita) in the Khmer Ramayana.” In The International Ramayana Collection. Ed Gauri Krishnan, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 2010.
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Global Soul: In Flight between Nationalism and Liberalism.” Ed. Kathleen O’Connel and Joseph O’Connel. Vishwabharati University, Kolkata, India, Special Issue, 2009.
“Being Gaijin and Being Female in the Sakoku Culture of Japan: Cultural Exile in Meira Chand’s The Gossamer Fly.” In Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes. Volume 1: From the Inside. Ed. Edwin Thumboo, Ethos Books, Singapore, 2007.
“Cultural Collision in the Waterscapes of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” In L’eau et les mondes indiens (Water and the Indian Worlds), under the aegis of SARI, Jonzac, France, 2007.
“The Ramayana in Thai and Khmer Culture.” Chapter in Ramayana Revisited. Ed. Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
University College, University of Toronto
University College is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation. It was the founding member of the university's modern collegiate system, and its secularism contrasted with contemporary...
, University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
. Her course, Asian Cultures in Canada, is endowed by Chancellor Emerita Senator Vivienne Poy
Vivienne Poy
Vivienne Poy was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1998. Poy came to Canada as a university student in 1959. She is the first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry. She graduated from St...
. Mehta is an author and journalist specializing in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
.
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 Jadavpur UniversityJadavpur University
Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...
Calcutta.
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
, her Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Retrieving Precolonial Identity through the Images of the Divine Feminine in Waterscapes of Postcolonial Fiction."
Academic Career:
Jan- Dec 2011 Lecturer, “Voices in Canadian Writing” (UNI 218S, Canadian Studies, University of Toronto).2006-Dec 2011 Lecturer, “Asian Cultures and Literatures in Canada.” (UNI307Y), Canadian Studies, University of Toronto).
Jan-Apr 2011 Lecturer, “Single Indian Writer Premchand” (HIND 3610, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto).
Winter 2010 Course Instructor, ENGB05, Critically Thinking about Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Fall 2009 Course Instructor, ENGD57H3 F (final year English Specialist Students), In-depth Study of the works of a Single Canadian Author “Michael Ondaatje: Narrator as the Private I.” Department of English, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Summer 2009 Course Instructor, Effective Writing, Department of English, University of Toronto.
Course Instructor, Critical Essay Writing Skills, Department of English, University of Toronto.
Journalistic career
Journalist Grade A1, in the early-1980s in the Australian Public ServiceAustralian Public Service
The Australian Public Service is the Australian federal civil service, the group of people employed by federal departments, agencies and courts under the Government of Australia, to administer the working of the public administration of the Commonwealth of Australia...
, Canberra. Worked for two ministries -- Ministry of Veterans' Affairs
Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
The Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs oversees income support, compensation, care and commemoration programs for more than 400,000 veterans and their widows, widowers and dependants....
(that dealt mainly with Vietnam War Veterans), and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Editor, Technocrat, a technology and business magazine of the Sterling Newspaper group, Bombay, in the mid-1980s.
Editor, Connoisseur's Asia, a Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
-based literary, arts and culture magazine, in the early 1990s.
Features Editor, Times Periodicals, Singapore, in the mid-1990s.
Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of Booker Prize winners and celebrated authors such as Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...
, Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...
, Ben Okri
Ben Okri
Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...
, David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
, Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
, Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
, Christopher J. Koch
Christopher Koch
Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
and many others. Julie was also a feature writer on religion, arts, and cultures of Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, Laos
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
; and columnist for The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, and The Straits Times
The Straits Times
The Straits Times is an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings . It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a current daily circulation of nearly 400,000...
, Singapore.
Published works
- Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia co-authored with Harish C. MehtaHarish C. MehtaHarish Chandra Mehta is an award-winning journalist and author on Southeast Asian affairs, and historian of American Foreign Relations.- Education :...
(Graham Brash, 1999) - 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.
Translation for Theatre
Member, Translation Unit, Pleiades Theatre, Toronto: Translated Rabindranath Tagore’s play, The Post Office, from Bengali to English. The play was performed in Toronto in May 7 –June 4, 2011, as the Year of India in Canada celebrations.
Book Chapters:
“Ondaatje’s Impertinent Voices: Tracking Family Ties to Remember History.” In Australasia-Asia: Change, Conflict and Convergence. Ed. Cynthia van den Dreissen. Swan-Longmans, 2010.
“Reconfiguring the Feminine: The Real, Reel, and Riel Life of Neang Seda (Sita) in the Khmer Ramayana.” In The International Ramayana Collection. Ed Gauri Krishnan, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 2010.
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Global Soul: In Flight between Nationalism and Liberalism.” Ed. Kathleen O’Connel and Joseph O’Connel. Vishwabharati University, Kolkata, India, Special Issue, 2009.
“Being Gaijin and Being Female in the Sakoku Culture of Japan: Cultural Exile in Meira Chand’s The Gossamer Fly.” In Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes. Volume 1: From the Inside. Ed. Edwin Thumboo, Ethos Books, Singapore, 2007.
“Cultural Collision in the Waterscapes of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” In L’eau et les mondes indiens (Water and the Indian Worlds), under the aegis of SARI, Jonzac, France, 2007.
“The Ramayana in Thai and Khmer Culture.” Chapter in Ramayana Revisited. Ed. Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.