Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions

Harshita Kamath

“Bhakti Songs for the God on the Hill: The Legacy of Tallapaka Annamayya.”

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath is Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University. Her research focuses on the textual and performance traditions of Telugu-speaking South India. Her monograph, Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press, 2019) analyzes gender impersonation in the Telugu dance style of Kuchipudi. She has also co-translated the sixteenth-century classical Telugu text Parijatapaharanamu (Theft of a Tree) with Velcheru Narayana Rao, which will be published as part of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press). Her next project focuses on the fifteenth-century Telugu bhakti poet, Tallapaka Annamayya, in the context of the Tirumala-Tirupati temple.

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