I am a Professor Emerita and the current Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. My research interests comprise the textual tradition of performing arts of India, Sanskrit literature, the Rāmāyaṇa and gender studies.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Canada.  I have recently published a critical edition of a musicological text, ‘Sangītanārāyana’, ‘Women in the Hindu Tradition’, ‘A Woman’s Rāmāyaṇa: Candrāvatī’s Bengali Epic’, with Sarika P. Bose, and many articles, including several on Tagore and on Hindu cultural and religious traditions.

I have also coedited a book, ‘The Other Women in The Rāmāyaṇa’ with John and Mary Brockington which has just been published. Another, “The Rāmāyaṇa through Folk Paintings of Bengal” is scheduled to be published later in 2016 from New Delhi: Niyogi Books.

I am currently editing and contributing to a volume on Hindu goddesses for Oxford University Press.