University of Toronto
I am a doctoral student in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto where I work on medieval Sanskrit poetry and Court Epic (mahākāvya) in particular. Within this genre I am engrossed in questions of how Sanskrit narratives cross religious, courtly, and textual boundaries in addition to broader questions of textual reception and literary aesthetics. My dissertation work centres on Śivasvāmin’s Kapphiṇābhyudaya (The Rise of Kapphiṇa), a 9th century Court Epic from Kashmir.