Deven M PatelDeven M. Patel is a Sanskrit scholar, translator, and professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, USA. His first monograph Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asi (2014) is a landmark study of one of the canonical literary works in Sanskrit literature viewed through the lens of eight centuries of critical reception. He has also published on hermeneutics and translation practices, linguistics, and poetics in ancient and medieval India. The current areas of his interest in research and translation focus on multilingualism in India, modern Sanskrit literature, intersections of visual and literary culture, and the genre of anthology. Read More Read Less