Extraordinary Child

Paula Richman is William H. Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions emerita at Oberlin College. She is the author of Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2000); editor and complier of Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology (Indiana University Press, 2008); and coeditor of Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments (Oxford University Press, 2021).