Cynthia Chapman James C. Dobbins Anna M. Gade David G. Kamitsuka Margaret D. Kamitsuka Joyce K. McClure Albert G. Miller Paula Richman Abe Socher Grover Z. Zinn Faculty Publications

Visiting Faculty 2004-2005

Geoff Chaplin Rocco Gangle Greg Goering Patrick Hatcher Jalane Schmidt

Paula Richman

Rice 329
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Paula.Richman@oberlin.edu
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Education

• B.A., Oberlin College, 1974
• M.A., Princeton Univ., 1977
• M.A., Univ. of Chicago, 1980
• Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1983

Selected Publications

• Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition
• Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre
• Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
• Women, Branch Stories, and Religion Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text
• "Against the Current: Sita and Her Foils in Modern Tamil and Telugu Short Stories," forthcoming in The Dynamics of Diversity, ed. Manu Bhagavan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005

Courses

• RELG 104. Introduction to Religion: Perspectives on Religious Narratives
• FYSP 172. The Religious Thought of Mohandas Gandhi
• RELG 231. Origins and Development of Hinduism
• RELG 232. Religious Epics of India
• RELG 233. Religion in Modern India
• RELG 291. Research Methodology
• RELG 328. Selected Topics in the Study of Hinduism: The Ramayana Tradition in South Asia
• RELG 329. Seminar: Methodology in the Study of Religion