Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions

Heidi Pauwels

“Emotion and Devotion: The Rise of the Vernacular Revisited.”

Heidi Pauwels is professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her publications include two monographs on sixteenth-century Bhakti: Krishna’s Round Dance Reconsidered(Curzon, London 1996) and In Praise of Holy Men (Egbert Forsten, Groningen 2002), a book comparing classical Sanskrit, early modern Hindi and contemporary film and television retellings of the stories of Sita and Radha: The Goddess as Role Model (OUP, New York 2008), and two volumes on Kishangarh art and poetry: Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century India (E.B. Verlag, Berlin 2015) and Mobilizing Krishna’s World (University of Washington Press, Seattle 2017). She is currently preparing a third volume: The Voice of India’s Mona Lisa. She has recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on vernacular views on Aurangzeb (with Anne Murphy, 2018) and of South Asian History and Culture on fifteenth-century Gwalior (with Eva De Clercq, 2020).

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