Emily Hudson
Boston University Department of Religion is pleased to announce a new faculty
member coming January 1st.
Emily T. Hudson, who will be joining the Religion Department in the spring 2010, received her M.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University with a specialization in South Asian religion(s), comparative literature, and literary theory. For the past two years, she has been teaching at Harvard University as a lecturer in the history and literature program. Situating herself methodologically at the crossroads of religion and literature, the history of religions, and religious ethics, Hudson’s teaching and research interests focus on South Asian literature and literary theory, Greek epic and tragedy, and comparative religious ethics. Her current research project, Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Poetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata, explores the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, and religion in one of the most celebrated and enigmatic literary texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition.
Courses for Spring 2010:
Sacred Journeys
CAS RN102
MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM
Topics in Religion and Literature
“Epic and Empire”
CAS RN524 A1/XL560 A1/STH TX826A1
M 6:00PM-9:00PM