Professor
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D. Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 1994
M.A. Eastern Philology and History: Indo-Iranistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1986
B.A. Eastern Philology and History: Indo-Iranistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1983
CV (227.59 KB)Current Research Projects:
- Edition and translation of selected works by Nagridas, alias Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764).Confluence of medieval Hindi devotional and Indo-Persian and Rajasthani court idiom (sponsored by the 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 a Simpson Cross Disciplinary Conversations grant).
- An edited volume on Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity. to be published from Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz with Monika Horstmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany).