Leela Prasad, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	119 Gray Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3533
Email Address:
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

• Religion 43.01, Hinduism Synopsis

  Gray 220, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• Religion 323.01, Ethnography of religion

  See instru, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

Education:

PhD

University of Pennsylvania

1998

Specialties:

Hinduism
Culture
Religion

Research Interests: ethics, anthropology of religion, gender, narrative, colonialism & postcolonial theory

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Leela Prasad. ""Do You Accept My Truth, My Lord?" Translation & Analysis of Kannada Folksong." Transforming Ramayanas: Modern Retellings in South India Ed. Paula Richman. Indiana University Press, 2007.
2. Leela Prasad. "Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women's Stories from South India." Gender and Story in South India Ed. Prasad, Bottigheimer, Handoo. SUNY Press, Fall, Fall, 2006.
3. Leela Prasad. "Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East  vol. 26 no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 157-59.
4. Leela Prasad. "Text, Tradition, and Imagination: Evoking the Normative in Everyday Hindu Life." Numen 53:1 (Spring, 2006): 1-47.
5.  Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town.  Columbia University Press, 2006.