Academics

“Śrīvidyā and Goddess Traditions,” In Richard Payne and Glen Hayes (editors), Oxford Handbook for Tantric Studies, Oxford University Press, 2024.

“Kāmeśvarī: Visualizing the Goddess of Desire,” In M. Slouber (editor), A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Devine From India and Beyond, University of California Press, 2021, 267–289.

“The Forgotten Consort: The Goddess and Kāmadeva in the Early Worship of Tripurasundarī,” International Journal of Hindu Studies vol. 24, no. 1, May 2020, 87–106.

“From Worldly Powers to Jīvanmukti: Ritual and Soteriology in the Early Tantras of the Cult of Tripurasundarī,” Journal of Hindu Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, May 2019 (special issue: Liberation in Hindu Culture), 103–26.

“Śrīvidyā,” In: K. A. Jacobsen (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Volume Four: Historical Perspectives, Poets, Teachers, and Saints, Relation to other Religions and Traditions, Hinduism and Contemporary Issues, 815–22. Leiden and Boston: Brill, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Zweite Abteilung, Indien, 2012.

Books

Forthcoming (2027) : The Tantric World for the Routledge Worlds series. Edited by Anya Golovkova, Hillary Langberg, Hugh B. Urban, and Shaman Hatley.

In Progress. Becoming Śrīvidyā: The Making of a Tantric Goddess Tradition.

2026           
Second Annual Conference on Yoga: Tantra: Channels, Winds & Wheels in the Body, “Digitizing the Serpent: Kuṇḍalinī, the Śrīcakra, and the Tantric Body in Living Śrīvidyā Practice,” featured speaker, March 21

2025             
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (remote), April 4

2024              
"The Goddess’s Forgotten Consort: Desire in Early Śrīvidyā Ritual,” Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, April 25

2023         
"Śrīvidyā and Goddess Traditions,” guest lecture for Women’s Spirituality and Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA (remote), October 20

2023

Research and Writing in the Post-Pandemic World and Beyond,” guest lecture for the MA in Yoga Studies Program, Naropa University, Boulder, CO (remote), May 4.

2022

"By Her Own Free Will: Non-Dual Reinterpretation of a Śākta Tantric Tradition in the Yoginīhṛdaya,” University of Chicago, South-Asia Languages and Civilizations, November 10

2020             
"A Goddess for the Second Millennium: On the Early Worship of Tripurasundarī,"
South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC), Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, November 5

2020             
"Conceptions of Liberation in the Hindu Tantric Worship of the Goddess Tripurasundarī,"
Cornell University, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and South Asia Program, January 27

2018             
“The Literary World of the Vāmakeśvarīmatavivaraṇa,” International Conference on Shakta Tantra,
Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, December 17–19

2018

“Immateriality & Infinity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Gallery talk, Bowdoin College, May 1

2018             
“Why Did Śrīvidyā Flourish?” An Advaitin View of Śrīvidyā Tantra: Honoring the Goddess,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, March 2–3

2024             
“The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies: Scholarly Collaborations, Interdisciplinary Cooperation, and the Study of Tantra,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, November 23–26

2023              
“Beyond Insider/Outsider: Theorizing Practitioners, Scholars, and Critical Methodologies” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, November 18–21.

2022             
“By Her Own Free Will: Non-Dual Reinterpretation of a Śākta Tantric Tradition in the Yoginīhṛdaya,” Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM), American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, November 18.

2022            
“Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Religious Perspectives,” panel participant and presenter, Lake Forest College, March 3

2021              
“Becoming Śrīvidyā: A Vedic Tale of a Kaula Goddess,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX (remote), November 20–23

2019             
“Liberation for the Devotees of the Threefold Goddess: Ritual and Soteriology in the Early Tantras of the Cult of Tripurasundarī,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 23–26 (Panel Organizer)

2019             
“A Goddess for the Second Millennium: Working with Sanskrit Sources in North America,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 23–26

2017             
“A Visual History of the Goddess Tripurasundarī,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 18–21 (Panel Organizer)

2017             
“A Kaula Woman or a Lady of Good Family? New Interpretations of the Cult of the Goddess Tripurasundarī in Thirteenth-Century Exegesis,” 46th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 26–28 (Panel Organizer)

2016             
“Reading in the ‘Fringes’: Jayaratha’s Literary Manifesto and his Vision of Kashmir in the Framing Verses to Tantrālokaviveka and the Vāmakaśvarīmatavivaraṇa,” International Conference Around Abhinavagupta: Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir, South Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Affairs, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 25–26

2016             
“Renewal through Elaboration: Worshipping the Goddess Pratyabhijñā-style in Jayaratha’s Thirteenth-Century Kashmir,” 45th Annual Conference on South Asia, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 20–23

2012             
“The Goddess Domesticated: Internalizing Love Magic in the Early Texts of the Tripurasundarī Cult,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 17–20

2012             
“The Cult of the Goddess Tripurasundarī in the Vāmakeśvarīmata and the Yoginīhṛdaya,” Fifteenth World Sanskrit Conference, Delhi, India, January 5–10

2010             
“Love Magic and Liberation in Premodern Sanskrit Tantras,” Global Scholars’ Symposium, Cambridge University, June 11–12

2010             
“The Cult of the Goddess Tripurasundarī in the Vāmakeśvarīmata,” Indology Graduate Seminar, Oxford University, May 28

2010             
“Love Magic in Śrīvidyā,” Clarendon Scholars’ Talking Heads Lecture Series, Oxford University, February 25

2025             

“Contemplative Pedagogy: Meditation in the Liberal Arts Classroom, Office of Faculty Development (OFD),” Lake Forest College, January 22

2021             

“Teaching Religion with Role-Playing Games: A Roundtable,” Midwest American Academy of Religion, April 30

2019             
“Diversity and Accessibility in Classroom Games,” Games in College Classrooms: A Three-Day Institute, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, June 10–12 (Workshop Organizer and Facilitator)

2018             
“An Inclusive Reacting Classroom,” Roundtable, Eighteenth Annual Faculty Institute, Reacting to the Past Consortium, Barnard College, New York, NY, June 14–17 (Roundtable Organizer)

2017             
“Using Role Play in the First-Year Writing Seminar: Insider and Outsider Perspectives,” Teaching as Research National Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 6 (Roundtable Organizer)

2017             
“Reacting to the Past: The Real Hunger Games,” Train the Trainer Pre-Conference Workshop, Teaching as Research National Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 5

2017             
“Learning Through Roleplay,” Understanding Undergraduate Learners Series, Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 21

2026-27

HUMAN Fellowship for “Vibe Philology: Translation of the Glory of the Goddess”

2025, 2026   

Summer Research Award, Lake Forest College

2024             

Scholarship Reimagined: A SoTL Program for Faculty & Staff, Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)

2024             

Office for Faculty Development Curricular Incentive Grant for A Garland of Tantric Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine

2023             

Office for Faculty Development Curricular Incentive Grant for Fantasies, Feminism, and Foibles in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Fall 2022      

Hotchkiss Research Fellowship, Lake Forest College

2022             

Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Faculty Career Enhancement Program

2020             
American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting Travel Grant

2019             
Faculty Course Development Award, Bowdoin College

2018             
Faculty Fellow, Center for Learning and Teaching, Bowdoin College

2018             
Faculty Research Award, Bowdoin College

2018             
Enhancing the Humanities at Bowdoin, Lectures and Concerts Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation

2015–2018   
Partnership Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2017             
Gertrude Spencer Prize, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University

2017             
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning Travel Grant, Cornell University

2016             
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Practitioner Program, Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University

2016             
Peer Collaboration/Mentorship Program Award and Summer Fellowship, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University

2016, 2012, 2011
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Conference Grant Award, Cornell University

2016–2017, 2014–2015, 2012–2013, 2011–2012
Asian Studies Teaching Assistantships, Cornell University

2013–2014   
Dissertation Fellowship, Cornell University

2013             
International Travel Grant Award, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

2012, 2011, 2010
Asian Studies Department Travel Grant Award, Cornell University

2010–2011   
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University

2009–2010    
Clarendon Fund Academic Scholarship, Oxford University

2009             
American Institute of Indian Languages (AIIS) Summer Fellowship in Sanskrit, India

2008–2009   
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Telugu, Columbia University

Research and Language Training

Fall 2013–Spring 2014 Dissertation Research, Oxford University

Fall 2008–Spring 2009 Sanskrit Scripts and Paleography, Columbia University                                      

Summer 2009 Sanskrit Program, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pune, India

Summer 2007 Sanskrit Program, South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), Madison, WI

International Workshops

August 2016 Age of Vedanta Workshop and Critical Philology and the Study of South Asian Pasts Symposium, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India

July 2010 Early Tantra Workshop, Hamburg University, Asia-Africa Institute, Germany

October 2009 Thinking Inside the Box: The Concept of a Category in Indian Philosophy, The Oxford Center for Hindu Studies, Somerville College, Oxford

“Scholarship Reimagined: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Program,” ACM, online, October 2024 – January 2025.

“Supporting Student Well-Being AND Academic Engagement,” ACM, online, June 22–24, 2022.

“Summer of Reacting,” Reacting Consortium, online, Summer 2020
“Reacting to the Past” Game Development Conference, Simpson College, July 12–14, 2018
“Reacting to the Past” Eighteenth Annual Faculty Institute, Barnard College, June 14–17, 2018
“Reacting to the Past” Annual Winter Conference, Georgia State University, January 12–13, 2018
“Reacting to the Past” Seventeenth Faculty Institute, Barnard College, June 8–11, 2017
Creative Academic Writing, Cornell University, May 13, 2017
“Reacting to the Past” Sixteenth Annual Faculty Institute, Barnard College, June 8–12, 2016

2022–Current    Co-Chair, Tantric Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion

2023–Current    Advisory Board, International Center for Tantric Research

2022–2023       Steering Committee, International Center for Tantric Research

2018–2021        Steering Committee Member, Tantric Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion

2019–2022       Inclusion and Accessibility Committee Member, Reacting Consortium Board (Role-Playing Games for Engaged Learning)

American Academy of Religion
Reacting Consortium (Role-Playing Games for Engaged Learning)