Indira Viswanathan Peterson
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| Indira Viswanathan Peterson | |
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 Indira Viswanathan Peterson |
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| Born | Mumbai, India |
| Occupation | South Asian studies |
| Nationality | India & United States |
| Subjects | Sanskrit |
| Notable work(s) | Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints |
Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a literary critic and the David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a specialist in South Asian Studies. [1]
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[edit] Background
Peterson was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She originally came to the United States as an AFS (American Field Service) exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The University of Mumbai and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a brief stint at Columbia University from 2002-2004.
[edit] Select scholarship
- Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi, 2003
- Editor - Norton Anthology of World Literature [1], 2003
- Editor - Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces [2], 1997
- Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints, 1989
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Citations search: "Indira Viswanathan Peterson" (Google Books)". Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
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