Expertise

Currently I work on Middle Bengali literature and am preparing my translation of Rupram Chakravarty’s 17th-century Middle Bengali epic, the Dharmamaṅgala, for translation with Oxford University Press.

My first body of research centered on the Bengali Vaishnava community of northeastern India.

I teach courses in Sanskrit, women in South Asian religious traditions, religion in South Asian cinema, and literatures of India in translation


Areas: Asian Languages and Literature (Sanskrit, Bengali, Middle Bengali); South Asian hagiography; formation of religious community; women in South Asian religious traditions; film and religion.


Subject Area(s): Religious Studies

Research Interests:

  • Sanskrit grammar, Middle Bengali literature, Hagiography, South Asian cinema
Communities
Literature, Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Washington, Asian Languages and Literature, 1995
MA, University of Washington, Asian Languages and Literature, 1989
MA, University of Washington, Slavic Linguistics, 1974
BA, University of Montana, Russian, 1973