Dr. Mithilesh Mishra, the Director and Language Coordinator of South Asian Languages at the Department of Linguistics and a Senior lecturer, is the chief instruction coordinator at SALIDcamp.
Dr. Mishra received his first M.A. degree (in Linguistics) from JNU, India. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006). He also earned a post-MA diploma in Applied Hindi Linguistics from the Central Institute of Hindi, Agra, India. He developed the first Hindi Minor in the USA and the first Online course on Advanced Hindi. He has received numerous grants for developing new courses, including from the Department of Education (USA), and the Mellon Foundation. He is the co-author of two books about teaching Hindi to English speakers.
Dr. Mishra has taught Hindi at all levels at four major Universities in the Midwest: the University of Chicago (1995-2003), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (2003-2006), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006- present). He has taught Summer Intensive Intermediate and Advanced level Hindi courses at SASLI (the University of Wisconsin at Madison) since 2006. At UIUC, he also developed and taught new courses on Business Hindi, Globalization and Language and Culture of India (a Study Abroad course), Culture and Economics of Education in India, Hindi Literature in Translation, and a popular Gen-Ed course on Language and Culture in India.
Dr. Mishra can be reached at mkmishra@illinois.edu.