Indira Viswanathan Peterson
- Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Infobox Writer
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name = Indira Viswanathan Peterson
caption = Indira Viswanathan Peterson
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birthplace = Mumbai, India
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occupation = South Asian studies
nationality = India & United States
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subject = Sanskrit
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notableworks ="Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints"
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website = Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a literary critic and the "David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies" at Mount Holyoke College. She is a specialist in South Asian Studies. [cite news
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Background
Peterson was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She came to the United States as an AFS ("American Field Service") exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The University of Mumbai and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at Columbia University from 2002-2004.
elect scholarship
* "Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi", 2003
* Editor - "Norton Anthology of World Literature" [http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nawol2/meet_the_editor.htm] , 2003
* Editor - "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" [http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nawmsh/meet_the_author.htm] , 1997
* "Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints", 1989
ee also
* List of Indian Americans
Notes
External links
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/ipeterso.shtml Official website]
*" [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/111904/peterson.shtml Peterson Comes Home] "
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