Grateful to be able to share that my article on the late thirteenth-century Tamil commentator Parimēlaḻakar was published in the Journal of Hindu Studies! It is the start of what I hope will become a longer project on his commentarial writings. academic.oup.com/jhs/advance-ar…

An incredible story told via incredible filmmaking. I recommend this documentary to everyone and am so glad it is finally available on Netflix! #ToKillATiger

Read Susan Neiman“Ordinary people do not fret over the reality of tables or chairs or billiard balls. They do, however, wonder if ideas like freedom and justice are merely fantasies. Kant’s main goal was to show they are not.” via The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/17/art…

Very excited to attend this event later today! Come join to support @SohiniPillai and celebrate her new book! A guest appearance by Gregory M Clines doesn't hurt, either!

Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India with Mujib Mashal nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…

The last paragraph of this article really says it all: "You spend 15 years at the hedge fund, you're going to be a different person. You don't just go work and make a lot of money, you go work and you become a different person." nytimes.com/2024/05/22/bus…

Grateful as always for Aisha's work on the intersection of race, science, and religion and the many iterations of anti-Blackness and policy brutality over time. Looking forward to reading her new book with Duke University Press!

How many copies of Thucydides is too many copies of Thucydides? Only time will tell… #teaching #courseprep

I ask myself this question on almost a daily basis.

114 years ago today, Kafka gave us another academic insight

Reading deeply and widely for many hours a day is the only way to become educated in an academic field. There are no shortcuts to this. If our students cannot read more than 100 pages per day or focus for more than 20 minutes at a time, they are never going to be educated.

Penguin announces upcoming multi-volume English translation of Kamba Ramayanam, a #Tamil version of the epic #Ramayana by 12th c poet Kampan and two #AIIS former fellows are a part of the project: Archana Venkatesan and Aniruddhan Vasudevan! Read more at: deccanherald.com/india/penguin-…

True love is staying with someone even though they did the Wordle under your login, guessed horribly, failed to solve, thus ending your multi-day streak and perfect solve score 😔🥰

I'm incredibly excited to share my latest piece for The New York Times. I had the honor of working with the fantastic New York Times Books team to tell the story of how A.I. is helping researchers recover long-lost pieces of Gilgamesh. nytimes.com/2024/08/12/boo…

Thinking of applying for an #AIIS research fellowship? Register for our Successful Applications Webinar September 26, 2024 at 12pm - 1:30 ET! Registration: forms.gle/LckFrsTAAhDsi4…

Really enjoyed this article, and look forward to sharing it with my students who will be reading Gilgamesh starting this week!

This is a very good AI/ChatGPT policy statement (and a helpful model/template) for those of us teaching this fall.

At this point LLMs-in-the-classroom apologists should be embarrassed. Students aren't just using this stuff as a "problem solving tool" or whatever BS people spout, they're using it to forget how to talk. Impossible to be pessimistic enough about it tbh.

I love these gorgeous books coming this fall from Harvard University Press to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Norton Lectures at Harvard. Design: Evan Gaffney

Despite its somewhat broad satire of the 18th-century English novel, Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” is no churlish attack on the genre. Rather, Adelle Waldman writes, it’s an elegant rebuttal to such critiques. nyer.cm/SE6a41M