Participant
Heidi Pauwels is Associate Professor in Hindi and Indian Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research on 16th-cenutry Krishna bhakti was published as Krishna's Round Dance Reconsidered (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996) and In Praise of Holy Men (Groningen: Egbert Forsten Press, 2002). Current interests include contemporary film and television retellings of mythology. Her book The Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on the Screen is to come out from OUP New York in 2008. The next project will be on the eighteenth century.
Contact: hpauwels@u.washington.edu