Mandakranta Bose, Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is a former director of the university’s Centre for India and South Asia Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. A Sanskrit scholar, Professor Bose is an alumnus of Calcutta University, the University of British Columbia, and Oxford University, with a D. Phil. degree in Sanskrit from Oxford. Among her many books and articles on the Hindu religion, Sanskrit literature, epics of India, classical dance and drama, gender issues, are: The Goddess (Oxford, 2018), The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings (New Delhi, 2017), and "Theology, Sexuality and Gender in the Hindu Tradition" (Oxford Handbook of Theology, Gender and Sexuality, 2015).
