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