Dr. Mohd. Asaduddin, Professor of English Advisor to Vice Chancellor-Academics & Research Administrative Positions Held Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Languages Director, Academic Affairs Director, Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilisations Director, Jamia Centenary History Project Telephones Tel: 91-011- 26981750 Cell: 91-09871854040 E-Mail
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[email protected] Languages Known Assamese, Bangla, English, Hindi, Urdu, French, Arabic Awards Crossword Book Award, 2013 Fulbright Fellowship (Sr), to the USA, 2008-9 Sahitya Akademi (Indian National Academy of Letters) Award, 2004. Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship to U.K., 2000 1 Dr A.K. Ramanujan Award, 1993 (for translating from more than one Indian languages into English) KATHA Translation Award, 1991, 1992. National Merit Scholarship Other Honours Consultant, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi (The National Academy of Letters), New Delhi Member, Gyanpeeth Award (India‘s highest literary Award) Committee Member, Language Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, two terms, 1998-2003, & 2003-2008 Chairman of the Jury, Sahitya Akademi Award in English Member of the Jury, Crossword Book Award Moderator, Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize (appointed judges and coordinated), IACLALS Member of the Jury, Yuva Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Member of the Jury, CD Narsimhaihah Award, IACLALS Member of the Jury, Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize, IACLALS Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Visiting Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,