
Associate Professor
Education
Research Interests
Sanskrit language and literature (belles-lettres, epics, and drama); grammar and linguistics; Indian philosophy and intellectual history; Pali, Prakrit, Hindi and Gujarati language and literature; translation theory.
Selected Publications
"Sources of Authority in Post-Classical Hinduism" in A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Post-Classical Age (800-1500 CE). Ed. Karen Pechilis. Bloomsbury Press. [Forthcoming]
“The Literary Commentary in Sanskrit as Metalinguistic Communication” in Asiatiche Studien – Études Asiatiques, vol., no., (2022).
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/asia-2021-0037/html
"The Curious Case of Sanskrit Literary Translingualism" in The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism. Eds. Steven Kellman and Natasha Lvovich. Routledge Press (2021).
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429298745-8/curi...
"Desire, Perception, and the Poetry of Desire: A Reading of the Vasucaritramu" in Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation. Eds. Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey. University of California Press (2021).
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/e/10.1525/luminos.114/
"Kāvya’s Repeat Performances: Intersections of Aesthetics, yoga-parikarma-bhāvanā, and the Logic of Medium-Specificity in Daśarūpaka’s Discussion of śāntarasa" in Cracow Indological Studies, Issue XXII (2) (2020).
https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/2166
“Appropriations and Innovations in Metalinguistic Terminology in an Influential Telugu Grammar Composed in Sanskrit” (2017) in Histoire Épistémologie Langage, Paris: Société d’Histoire et d’Épistémologie des sciences du Langage (International Society for the History and Epistemology of Language Science).
https://www.persee.fr/doc/hel_0750-8069_2017_num_39_2_3612
"Mettabhāvanā in Traditional and Popular Buddhist Contexts" (2014) in Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East. Taylor & Francis. Volume 24, Issue 4.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09552367.2013.831532
“Sanskrit Poetry” (2012) in The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th Edition. Ed. Greene and Cushman. Princeton University Press, pp. 1250-1255.
“Shared Typologies of Kāmaśāstra, Alaṅkāraśāstra, and Literary Criticism” (2011) in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, Volume 39, No.1.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23884108?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
"Source, Exegesis, and Translation: Sanskrit Commentary and Regional Language Translation in South Asia" (2011) in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 131, no. 2
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23044644?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Courses Taught
Affiliations
American Oriental Society, Association for Asian Studies, International Association of Sanskrit Studies, American Institute of Indian Studies, Scindia Oriental Research Institute, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute