Lisa W. Crothers

Department/Affiliation: Religious Studies; South Asian Studies
Phone: 330-263-2257
Office Address: 003 Kauke
Email: lcrothers@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A. Muhlenberg College (Religious Studies) 1990
• M.A. Indiana University 1998
• Ph.D. Emory University (Expected 2011)
  

Courses Taught

• RELS 110: Religions East & West
• RELS 218: Hinduism
• RELS 220: Buddhism
• RELS 220: Islam

Publications

• "Duryodhana's Pride and Perception: The Dynamics of Distrust in the Moment of Counsel at the Kaurava Court." In the Mahābhārata: What is not here is nowhere else (Yannehāsti na Tadkvacit), ed. T.S. Rukmani. (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2005)
• "Symbolism of the Seated Pala Buddha Figure." Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Emory University, Atlanta (April, 2002)
• "Duryodhana's Pride and Perception: The Dynamics of Distrust in the Moment of Counsel." International Conference on the Mahabharata, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (May, 2001)
• "Enriching Discourses on Ways of Knowing" Faculty Workshop South Asia Through Literature and Film. Triangle South Asia Consortium and the U. S. Department of Education (November, 2000)
• "The Ethics of Error in the Panchatantra and Arthashastra." Mysticism, Reason, Art and Literature: East-West Perspectives. Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion. Ferrum College, Virginia (September, 2000)