Detroit: Thomson Gale (Macmillan Reference USA). 2005, 'Monkeys.' In Lindsay Jones (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, vol.2007, Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey.The Mahabharata as Literature, Performance, and Ideology.The Ramayana as Literature, Performance, and Ideology.Indian Mystical Literature in Translation.Alternative Universes (Hindu Mythology).He served as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies from 2010-2018, and continues serving as Chair of its Board of Trustees ( ). He is presently translating the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas as The Epic of Ram, in seven dual-language volumes, for the Murty Classical Library of India/Harvard University Press ( ). His research on the cultural history of tea drinking in India was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Senior Overseas Research Fellowship (2010-11). He created a website devoted to Indian popular cinema, a.k.a. His interests include epic performance traditions, folklore and popular culture, and mass media. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002-03 for his research on the popular Hindu deity Hanuman, which appeared as Hanuman’s Tale, The Messages of a Divine Monkey (Oxford University Press, 2007). Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.

His book on the performance of the Hindi Ramayana, The Life of a Text (University of California Press, 1991) won the A. Philip Lutgendorf taught Hindi and Modern Indian Studies in the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature for 33 years, retiring in 2018. Center for Language and Culture Learning.Honors in Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures.Minor in Russian and Eastern European Studies.Minor in Asian Languages and Literature.

Bachelor of Arts in Asian Languages and Literatures.

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