Biography
Richman’s edited volumes with introduction, chapter, and backmatter:
India’s Mithila Painting, with D. Szanton. U of Washington P, 2025.
Performing the Ramayana Tradition, with R. Bharucha. Oxford UP, 2021.
Ramayana Stories in Modern South India, Indiana UP, 2008.
Questioning Ramayanas, U of California P., 2000.
Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. U of California P, 1991.
Monographs:
Extraordinary Child: Translations from a Genre of Tamil Devotional Poetry. U of Hawaii P., 1997.
Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text. Syracuse UP, 1988.
Articles and Chapters:
“The Cultural Politics of Classifying Mithila Painting,” Asian Ethnology, 85:1 (2026).
“Tradition and Innovation in the Making of About Ram,” AOQU 4.2 (2023): 275-87.
"'We Don't Change It, We Make it Applicable:' Ramlila in Trinidad." The Drama Review, 54:1 Winter 2010: 61-89.
"The Politics and Print Career of C. Rajagopalachari's Tellings of Ramkatha." In Political Hinduism, pp. 211-50. Ed. V. Lal. Oxford UP, 2009.
"Why Did Bhima Wed Hidimbaa?" In Reflections and Variations on the Mahabharata, pp. 172-200. Sahitya Akademi, 2009.
"Ways of Celebrating Ram's Birth in Durban." Religions of South Asia. 2:2 (2008): 109-33.
"Ravana in London: The Theatrical Career of a Demon." Cultural Dynamics. July/Nov (2007): 165-92.
“A Tamil Modernist’s Account of India’s Past.” J. of Asian Studies, 6:1 (Feb 2007), 35-62.
“A View from the South: E.V. Ramasami’s Public Critique of Religion,” co-author, V. Geetha. In Crisis of Secularism in India, pp. 66-88. Eds. A. Needham and R. Sundaram. Duke UP, 2006.
"A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall." J. of the American Academy of Religion, 67:2 (1999): 35-57.
"Epic and State: Interpretations of the Ramayana." Public Culture, 7:3 (Spring 1995): 631-54
"Veneration of the Prophet Muhammad in an Islamic Pillaittamil." J. of the American Oriental Society, 113.1 (Winter 1993): 57-74.
Plus 19 additional articles in books and journals
