Interests: mantra, Vedic texts and ritual; performance, sound, film; Sanskritic religious cultures of South India.

My dissertation, "This Whole...

My primary interest lies in the language, religion, and society of Vedic India. I focus mainly on commentarial literature, which explains the meaning and...

Smith's dissertation examines the mimesis of the gods in the R̥gveda in order to understanding the Vedic religious imagination which makes poetic...