Rajeshwari Pandharipande is Professor of Linguistics, Religious Studies, and Comparative literature. She has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit (Language, Literature,and Religion) from India and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She teaches courses on Asian Mythology, Hinduism, Hinduism in the United States, Language of Religion, Language Variation, Sanskrit, and Hindi literature. She has authored three books entitled, The Eternal Self and the cycle of Samsara: Introduction to Asian Mythology and Religion (Ginn Press: Massachusetts), Intermediate Hindi (Motilal Banarsidass, India), and Never is a long time aur anya kavitayen (Banahatti Prakashan, India), which is a collection of her original Hindi poems. Her forthcoming publications are A grammar of the Marathi language (Routledge), and Sociolinguiatic Dimensions of Marathi: Multilingualism in Central India (Manhar Publications).

Courses Taught
RLST 104 Asian Mythology
RLST 286 Intro to Hinduism