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Paula Richman is William Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions at Oberlin College. She received her PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and has published two books on Tamil literature: Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text and Extraordinary Child: Translations from a Genre of Tamil Devotional Poetry. She has also edited and contributed to three volumes on the Ramayana: Many Ramayanas; Questioning Ramayanas; and Ramayana Stories in Modern South India. Her new book A Narrative and a Region: The Story of Rama and Sita in Tamil Country and Beyond is forthcoming. She has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Institute for Indian Studies.
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