Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
B.A. Columbia University
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.
BOOKS:
Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia. Columbia University Press, 2014.
Interview with Critical Margins:
Āndhraśabdacintāmaṇi: A Grammar of Telugu Language in Sanskrit [co-authored with R.V.S. Sundaram], Central Institute of Indian Languages, 2016.
Kavirājamārgam: The Way of the King of Poets [co-authored with R.V.S. Sundaram], Jawarharlal Nehru University (Kannada Language Chair) and Manohar Publishers, 2017.
SELECTED ARTICLES:
"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
“Shared Typologies of Kāmaśāstra, Alaṅkāraśāstra, and Literary Criticism” (2011) in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, Volume 39, No.1.
“Sanskrit Poetry” (2012) in The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th Edition. Ed. Greene and Cushman. Princeton University Press, pp. 1250-1255.
"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.
“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).
SELECTED REVIEWS:
Review of Extreme Poetry (Y. Bronner) in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 130.4 (2011), pp. 28-30.
Review of Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (S. Kaul) in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19.1 (2013), pp. 189-190.
Review of Innovations and Turning Points in Kāvya Literature in Journal of the American Oriental Society (Ed. Bronner, Tubb, Shulman), V. 137/1. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2017.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.137.1.0151?
Review of A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (S. Pollock) in The Indian Economic and Social History Review (IESHR), 55, 4 (2018): 575-592.
Review of The Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India (A. Ollett) in The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS), Vol. 78, Issue 3 (August 2019), pp. 711-712.
SAST 004 401 India's Literature: Love, War, Wisdom and Humor
SAST 006 401 Hindu Mythology
SAST 150 401 Introduction To Indian Philosophy
SAST 324 401 Sanskrit Literature and Poetry
SAST 334 401A Survey of Sanskrit, Pakrit,& Classical Tamil Literature in Translation
SAST 631 401A The Sanskrit Epics
SAST 713 401 Literary Theory, Aesthetics, and Comparative Literature in South Asia
SKRT 460 001 Sanskrit: 1st Year
SAST 480 301 Readings in Sanskrit Literature
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
South Asia Studies
