Education
- BA Eastern Philology and History: Indo-Iranistics. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1983.
- MA Eastern Philology and History: Indo-Iranistics. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1986.
- PhD Asian Languages and Literature. University of Washington, 1994.
Research & Teaching Fields - Medieval and modern Hindi language and literature, Hinduism, Sanskrit language and literature
Selected Publications
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- "Hagiography and Community Formation: The Case of a Lost Community of Sixteenth-Century Vrindavan." The Journal of Hindu Studies March 2010.
- Patronage and Popularisation, Pilgrimage and Procession: Channels of Transcultural Translation and Transmission in Modern and Pre-Modern South Asia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.
- “The Saint, the Warlord, and the Emperor: Discourses of Braj Bhakti and Bundela Loyalty.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52 (2009): 187-228.
- 2008. The Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on Screen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
- “Stealing a Willing Bride: Women’s agency in the myth of Rukmini's Elopement.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17.4 (2007): 407-41.
- In Praise of Holy Men: Hagiographic poems by and about Hariram Vyas. Groningen Oriental Studies 18. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2002.
Current Research Projects
- Mapping
Role Models for Hindu Women: The goddesses Sita
and Radha from ancient and medieval literature
to contemporary film and television.
- Edition and
translation of selected works by Nagridas, alias
Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764).Confluence
of medieval Hindi devotional and Indo-Persian
and Rajasthani court idiom.
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| Courses Taught - ASIAN 206 Literature & Culture of South Asia from Tradition to Modernity
- ASIAN 263 Great Works of Asian Literature
- ASIAN 498/RELIG 490 Many Ramayanas/Hindu Goddesses
- HINDI
311-312-313 Elementary Hindi
- HINDI 321-322-323 Intermediate Hindi
- HINDI 401-402-403 Advanced
Hindi
- HINDI 421-422-423 Survey of Modern Hindi Literature
- HINDI 501 Studies in Medieval Braj Literature
- HINDI 502 Studies in Medieval Avadhi LIterature
- HINDI 504 Studies in Medieval Rajasthani Literature
- RELIG 352 Hinduism
- RELIG 502 Saints and sacred biography
- SNKRT 301-302-303 Beginning Sanskrit
- SNKRT 560:
Readings in Philosophical Sanskrit
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