Heidi Pauwels

Current Research Projects:

• Edition and translation of selected works by Nagridas, alias Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764) and his concubine Rasik Bihari alias Bani Thani ("the Indian Mona Lisa"). Confluence of classical Hindi devotional and Indo-Persian and Rajasthani court idiom (sponsored by a NEH and  Guggenheim Fellowship).
• Revisiting the birth of Urdu: the reception of "the father of Urdu," Vali, in eighteenth-century Delhi salons, an interdisciplinary project with Purnima Dhavan (History, UW) (sponsored by an NEH Collaborative grant).
• An edited volume on  Vernaculars, Memory construction and Emotion:  Giant Jinas and Warrior Epics in Gwalior together with Eva De Clercq (Gent University, Belgium).