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
  

last updated 3/10/06