Scholarship and Biography

Current studies: Syllabic economies, Emblematic Lyric, Performance, Translation, Vocal expression, Ekphrasis, Sanskrit, Buddhist & Vedic literatures, Anatomy, Yoga Philosophy & Practice, Kirtan.

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Honors

Travel Grant
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1967
Yale Younger Poets Award
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 1977
Poetry Travel Grant
Oregon Arts Commission , 1980
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEA, 1979
Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (United States, New York) - HFG, 1981
Witter Bynner Translation Grant
Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry (United States, Santa Fe), 1991
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lambda Literary, 2000
Louis Dembitz Award for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2005
Norman Fund Grant
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006-2007
Translation Fellowship
National Endowment of the Arts. Washigton D.C.) - NEA, 2009-2011

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice Emerita of English, Department of English, Brandeis University

Education

University of Oregon
M.F.A.
University of Pennsylvania
B.A.