Presenter

Ulrike Stark

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Ulrike Stark is Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her research focuses on Hindi literature, South Asian book history and print culture, and North Indian intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently working on a biography of Raja Shivaprasad of Benares (1823-1895), a public intellectual, man of letters, historian, and eminent educator in nineteenth-century North India.