Laurie Patton, Ph.D. is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities
and Chairperson for the Department of Religion of Emory University. She earned her B.A. from Harvard
University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her interests are in the interpretation of early Indian
ritual and narrative, comparative mythology, and literary theory in the study of religion. She is the author/editor
of Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation, Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as
Canonical Commentary, Myth and Method (with Wendy Doniger), Jewels of Authority: Women and Text
in the Hindu Tradition, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions, Bringing the Gods to Mind, The Indo-Aryan
Controversy: Evidence and Evocation (forthcoming with Edwin Bryant), Fire's Goal: Poems from a Hindu Year,
and a soon-to-be-published translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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