About the Contributors

Folio from an illustrated Gītagovinda manuscript, 18 C Jaipur Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Collection. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/23739/lot/3130/two-illustrations-from-a-gita-govinda-series-jaipur-19th-century/

Vishnupriya Goswami is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. Currently she is writing on the Krishna devotional drama of Rās-līlā of the Braj region, where she grew up. She is also an accomplished Odissi dancer.

Raagini Hazarika is an undergraduate student pursuing her B.A.s in English and South Asian Languages and Culture at the University of Washington. Her future research interests include Victorian literature, Romanticism, and the intersection between Indian and English literature.

Jonathan Laiman is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington with a focus on Buddhist Studies. His research interests include Buddhist philology, intellectual history, and the transmission of Buddhist texts across languages and regions, especially in Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, and Prakrit.

Heidi Pauwels is Professor in the department of Asian Languages and Literature with a special interest in Classical Hindi devotional literature, especially songs.

Webpage: https://asian.washington.edu/people/heidi-pauwels

Anjali Yadav is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington with an interest in early-modern South Asian literature. Her dissertation focuses on women’s songbooks from eighteenth-century Rajasthan.Webpage: https://asian.washington.edu/people/anjali-yadav 

With Special Thanks to Dylan Burns and Verletta Kern of UW Libraries!