Co-Sponsorship Annual Meeting 2024

Hinduism Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit

Call for Proposals

Walk into an airport bookstore in South Asia or North America and you'll find the narrative worlds of Hinduism packaged between the covers of paperback after paperback. This panel asks: How are Hindu stories currently being told in popular literature? How are they being sold to mass-market readers? How do present-day patterns of "telling and selling" shift to accommodate different languages, genres, and imagined readers? We welcome papers that address the presentation of Hindu myths, narratives, figures, and ideas in contemporary popular literature produced in various regions, languages (including English), and genres (adult, YA series, children's books, comics, etc.)

Chair Mail Dates
Eden Consenstein, University of North… edenc@unc.edu -
David Feltmate dfeltmat@aum.edu -
Shana Sippy shana@sippys.net -
Varun Khanna vrkhanna@gmail.com -
Steering Member Mail Dates
Jamal Jones jamal.and.jones@gmail.com -
Nell Hawley nell.s.hawley@gmail.com -
Talia Burnside tburnside@fsu.edu -
Tracy Pintchman tpintch@luc.edu -
Roger A. Sneed roger.sneed@furman.edu -
John Nemec nemec@virginia.edu -
Juli Gittinger gitju68@gmail.com -
Sohini Pillai sohini.pillai@kzoo.edu -
America Wolff awolff@fsu.edu -
Kaitlyn Ugoretz ugoretzresearch@gmail.com -
Daniel White Hodge dan@whitehodge.com -
Review Process: Participant names are anonymous to chairs and steering committee members during review, but visible to chairs prior to final acceptance/rejection