Please note: Premlata has left the "Asian & Middle Eastern Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
Office Location: | 202 Franklin Center |
Office Phone: | 919-681-1591 |
Email Address: | |
Web Page: | www.duke.edu/~pv2110 |
Ph.D. in Hindi Literature | Rajasthan Vidyapeeth | 2003 |
M.Phil. in Hindi Hindi Literature | M.L. Sukhadia University | 1999 |
M.A. in Hindi | M.L. Sukhadia University | 1997 |
M.A. in Public Affairs | M.L. Sukhadia University | 1995 |
B.Sc. in Biology | M.L. Sukhadia University | 1993 |
Current projects: Working on a project to involve Hindi students with the community in Triangle area.
Dr. Vaishnava’s interests include developing teaching materials for South Asian languages (such as Hindi), incorporating new technology and innovative ideas in classroom, publishing her own poetry, stories and journal articles on diaspora and gender among South Asian women immigrants. Dr. Vaishnava is actively involved with other South Asian language teachers across the country and abroad to establish a network to share and learn from each other. In this process, she plans to collect materials developed by different teachers of Hindi language and publish a book. Dr. Vaishnava also takes initiative to organize panels on foreign language teaching and learning. She had presented a number of papers on the above topics at conferences/workshops.