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|name=Manju Jaidka<br />
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'''Manju Jaidka''' is Head of Department at [[Shoolini University]]'s department of English.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-26|title=Webinar on detective fiction concluded at Shoolini University|url=http://crazynewsindia.com/webinar-on-detective-fiction-concluded-at-shoolini-university/|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Crazy News India|language=en-US}}</ref> She was formerly a professor at [[Panjab University]], Chandigarh, [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEWS FROM PU CHANDIGARH|url=http://indianewscalling.com/sunday-magazine/news/96137-e-learning-series-by-english-depttpu.aspx|access-date=2020-07-29|website=indianewscalling.com}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
* ''Narratives Across Borders''. Cambridge Scholars, 2016. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/narratives-across-borders <br />
* ''Deepa Mehta's Elemental Trilogy''. New Delhi: Readworthy Press, July 2011. https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Critical_Study_of_Deepa_Mehta_s_Trilog.html?id=n_x1dnrUwmsC&redir_esc=y <br />
* ''Landmarks in American Literature''. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2007. http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=13708<br />
* ''Politics of Location in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas'', co-edited with Anil Raina (Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 2003).<br />
* ''An Annotated Anthology of English and American Poetry'' ([[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] Text Book Award). Chandigarh: Panjab University Publication Bureau, 2002.<br />
* ''Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of America'', eds. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, Somdatta Mandal and Vijay Kumar Sharma. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2002<br />
* ''From Slant to Straight: Recent Trends in Women's Poetry''. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2000.<br />
* ''T. S. Eliot's Use of Popular Sources'' (Mellen Press, US, 1997). This was her Post-Doctoral Fulbright project for which research was carried out at the Houghton (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Beinecke (Yale), Harry Ramson Centre (Austin, Texas), and New York Public Library.<br />
* Tiresias and Other Masks: English and American Poetry after The Waste Land. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1994.<br />
* ''Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath''. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1992.<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
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Recent:<br />
* 2016: Award for Lifetime Contribution to Literature from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=10 authors felicitated with Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi award|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/10-authors-felicitated-with-chandigarh-sahitya-akademi-award-240816|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}</ref><br />
* 2015 (March): Visiting Professorship, New York University.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=Flash mob|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/flash-mob-50019|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}</ref><br />
* April 2010 and April 2012: Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. <br />
* March – April 2008, Jaidka was awarded the Lillian Robinson Fellowship by the [[Simone de Beauvoir]] Institute for Feminist Studies, [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]], Montreal, Canada. http://wsdb.concordia.ca/faculty-and-staff/lillian-robinson-scholars/documents/PreviousLillianRobinsonScholars_002.pdf<br />
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Her earlier international engagements are listed here:<br />
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* Nov – Dec 2006: Visiting Academic, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK.<br />
* 2005–07: Member, Executive Council of the International American Studies Association (IASA).<br />
* 1998–99: International Fellowship, [[Rockefeller Foundation]], at the International Forum for US Studies, [[University of Iowa]].<br />
* 1996, April–May: Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar Workshop on "Themes in Contemporary [[American Literature]]" (April 1996) sponsored by [[USIA]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]].<br />
* 1995, September–October: Resident Fellowship, [[Bellagio (Italian region)|Bellagio]] Study and Conference Center (sponsored by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]), Italy.<br />
* 1991–92: [[Rockefeller Foundation|Post-Doctoral Fulbright Research Grant]], Harvard and Yale Universities, US.<br />
* Manju Jaidka is on the Editorial Boards of international journals published in the US and UK.<br />
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