Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1974
- Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1977
- Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1980
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1983
Selected Publications
- Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition
- Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian DevotionalGenre
- Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
- Women, Branch Stories, and Religion Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text
- "Against the Current: Sita and Her Foils in Modern Tamil and Telugu Short Stories," forthcoming in The Dynamics of Diversity, ed. Manu Bhagavan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005
