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Heidi Pauwels

Professor

233 Gowen Hall
Box 353521
Seattle, WA 98195-3521
(206) 543-4235; Fax (206) 685-4268
hpauwels@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/hpauwels/

 
Krsna's Round Dance Reconsidered
     

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

For entire bibliography, please click here.

  • "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.
 

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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