Archana Venkatesan

Archana Venkatesan is associate professor of comparative literature and religious studies at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in the intersection of text and performance in south India, as well as in the translation of early and medieval Tamil poetry into English. She is the author of A Hundred Measures of Time (2014), and with Crispin Branfoot, In Andal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur (2015).

Archana Venkatesan is associate professor of comparative literature and religious studies at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in the intersection of text and performance in south India, as well as in the translation of early and medieval Tamil poetry into English. She is the author of A Hundred Measures of Time (2014), and with Crispin Branfoot, In Andal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur (2015). See less