美國哥倫比亞大學梵文和南亞研究學教授,印度文學系列叢書The Murty Classical Library of India總編輯,哈佛大學博士。主要研究領域:梵文語文學、。代表作:The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (University of California Press, 2006) and A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 2016).