
BORN
14th July, 1951
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
Teacher of English Language & Literature (1981 – 2017)
Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Bombay (Professor since 1995)
EDUCATION
- B.A : English & British History, Elphinstone College, Bombay University
- M.A : English & Aesthetics, Bombay University
- M. Litt : Phonetics & Linguistics, CIEFL (now EFLU), Hyderabad
- Ph. D : Aesthetics, Bombay University
- Diploma in Music, Bombay University
PARALLEL CAREER
Trained as a vocalist for more than 40 years under the guidance of three gurus:
- Late Pt. G. T. Tilak
- Late Prof. Ashok Ranade
- Late Pt. Ratnakar Pai
CONCERTS & LEC-DEMS
In India as well as in the USA, UK, and Canada.
- Most recently, invited by NCPA, Mumbai, to be in Dialogue with Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande about Jaipur Gharana in a National Seminar on Khayal (January, 2020)
- Concerts in Nehru Centre, London, UK & in Lexington Cultural Centre, Boston, USA (June, 2018)
- Invited to deliver a lecture-demonstration on “Compositions of the Jaipur Gharana” at NCPA, Mumbai (December, 2016)
- An audio-visual presentation along with demonstration at the Bakhtin Conference held at Western Ontario University, Canada (2009)
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS & PUBLICATIONS
- Formulated and taught courses at IIT Bombay on Art & Aesthetics and Appreciation of Music at the undergraduate & doctoral levels
- Successfully guided 19 doctoral students in different areas of Humanities & Performing Arts
- Invited as a Resource Person at the national workshop on “Research in Music” at College of Music, Goa, February 2020
- Published several papers in journals in English & Marathi on Aesthetics, Semiotics, Linguistics, Stylistics.
- Published three books in Marathi and one book in English on Aesthetics, Linguistics & Research Methodology for the Performing Arts.
- Wrote prefatory essay “Bandish in Khayal” for Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande’s collection of compositions “Raga-Rachananjali” (Vol. 1)
- Translated books and papers on Aesthetics & Linguistics into Marathi
VISITING FACULTY IN MUSIC & AESTHETICS
- Mumbai University
- Pune University
- S.N.D.T University (Mumbai & Pune)
- M.S University, Baroda
- National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
CONTACT INFO
milindmalshe at yahoo dot com