Education
- B.A. Oriental Studies. City College of New York. 1970
- Ph.D. Bengali. University of Pennsylvania. 1983
Research & Teaching Fields
- Bengali language and literature, Islam in Bengal
Selected Publications
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Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature, Language, and
Culture , eds. Alan Entwistle and Carol Salomon with Heidi
Pauwels and Michael Shapiro. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999.
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"The Bauls" in Religions in India in Practice , ed.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1995, pp. 187-208.
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"The Cosmogonic Riddles of Lalan Fakir," in Gender, Genre and
Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions , ed. Arjun
Appadurai, Frank Korom, and Margaret Mills. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. 267-304.
Current Research Projects
- City of Mirrors: An Edition and Annotated Translation of Selected
Songs by Lalan Fakir
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Courses Taught
- Indian 411 Intensive Elementary Bengali
- Asian 206 Medieval and Modern
South Asian Literature
- Beng 311, 312 and 313 Elementary Bengali
- SISSA 490 Islam in Bengal
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