Emilia Bachrach

Biography

Emilia Bachrach is a scholar of South Asian religions across global contexts. Drawing on her academic training in ethnography, textual interpretation, and translation, her research explores how religious texts, practices, and orientations both inform and are informed by everyday experiences of family, work, class, and gender. Her current project in Spain considers the intersections of religion and labor among South Asian economic migrants, looking especially at how devotional practices are enacted in workspaces and how women’s religious self-fashioning influences their labor and economic choices. She is the author of In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript (Mapin, 2019), Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2022), and Women in Hindu Traditions (New York University Press, [2027]), co-authored with Jennifer D. Ortegren and Sohini Sarah Pillai.