Heidi Pauwels is professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Her publications include two monographs on sixteenth-century Bhakti: Krishna’s Round Dance Reconsidered (Curzon, London 1996) and In Praise of Holy Men (Egbert Forsten, Groningen 2002) and a book comparing classical Sanskrit, early modern Hindi and contemporary film and television retellings of the stories of Sita and Radha: The Goddess as Role Model (OUP, New York 2008).
She has authored a trilogy on Kishangarh art and poetry: Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century India (E.B. Verlag, Berlin 2015), Mobilizing Krishna’s World (University of Washington Press, Seattle 2017), and a third volume has just appeared from Cambridge University Press: The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa. She has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on vernacular views of Aurangzeb(with Anne Murphy, 2018) and of South Asian History and Culture on fifteenth-century Gwalior (with Eva De Clercq, 2020). She has won a Guggenheim and NEH fellowships.