Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Biography
I am interested in the Sanskrit language and its teaching both in its South Asian contexts over time, and in the West. I specialise in Sanskrit poetry (kāvya), and often work on texts of theory on poetics and aesthetic practices in premodern South Asia.
My main focus has been Sanskrit messenger poetry (dūtakāvya) and I am currently working on editing and translating a set of Sanskrit messenger poems from Kerala in South India, which form a coherent and distinct corpus, significant for both local and translocal practices of Sanskrit composition.
Before coming to the University of Chicago, I spent eight years teaching courses in Sanskrit and Phonology at SOAS, University of London.
Current and Recent Courses
SANS
10100
First-Year Sanskrit-1
SANS
20100
Second-Year Sanskrit-1