30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

PHILIP A. LUTGENDORF

WRITER & ACADEMIC

Philip A. Lutgendorf is Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. Much of his research has focused on the Ramayana tradition in North India. He is the author of The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas and of Hanuman’s Tale, The Messages of a Divine Monkey. His interests include epic performance traditions, folklore and popular culture, and he maintains a website devoted to Bollywood cinema (http://www.uiowa.edu/indiancinema/ ). Current projects include a book on the cultural history of chai and a new translation of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, in seven dual-language volumes, for the Murty Classical Library of India (http://www.murtylibrary.com/volumes.php ). He has served, since 2010, as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies (http://www.indiastudies.org)

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