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Shubha Pathak

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religion

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Undergraduate Religious Studies Advisor
  • Shubha Pathak is a historian of religions who specializes in the mythological literatures of ancient India, Greece, and Rome. In addition to offering courses on philosophies of art, Asian religions, Hinduism, and comparative mythology, she is researching poetic kings in the primary epics of ancient Greece and India; the uses of metaphor and metonymy theories in comparative religious studies; and the construction of poetic creativity in ancient Greece and Rome, ancient and medieval India, and beyond.

  • Degrees

    AM (divinity), PhD (history of religions), University of Chicago Divinity School
    PhD (social and behavioral sciences), Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
    AB (religion), Princeton University

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  • CAS - Philosophy and Religion
  • Battelle Tompkins - 113
  • Tuesday and Friday 4-6

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Selected Publications

  • "Why Do Displaced Kings Become Poets in the Sanskrit Epics?" International Journal of Hindu Studies 10, no. 2 (2006): 127–49.
  • "The Divine Character of Poetic Creativity in Rajasekhara's Kavyamimamsa." Proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference.

Research Interests

The philosophical, psychological, and religious aspects of epic poetry and poetic creativity; comparative religious studies; classical literary criticism; and contemporary psychological theories.

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