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Velcheru Narayana Rao Velcheru Narayana Rao Formal Education 1954 B.A. Sir C.R.Reddy College, Andhra University: History, Political Science and Advanced Telugu 1968 M.A. Andhra University: Telugu Literature 1970 Diploma in Linguistics, Osmania University 1974 Ph.D. Andhra University: Telugu Literature. Dissertation Title: Telugulo Kavita Viplavala Svarupam, (Structure of Literary Revolutions in Telugu.) Appointments 1971 Lecturer, Department of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison. 1975 Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1981 Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1987 Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, now Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2009-10 Visiting Professor, University of Chicago 2010 Fall Visiting Professor, Emory University. 2011. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Emory University. 2015 Koppaka Chair for Telugu Literature, History and Culture. Emory University 2 Publications In Telugu Books: Select list; complete list too long to give here. Narayana Ravu Kathalu. Short stories, Eluru: Gita Book House, 1965. Telugulo Kavita Viplavala Svarupam. (Structure of Literary Revolutions in Telugu). Revised form of Ph.D. dissertation, Vijayawada: Visalaandhra Publishing House. 1978. Second edition, Hyderabad Book Trust, 1988. Third revised edition, Chicago: Tana Publications, 2009. In English. Books: For the Lord of the Animals: Poems from the Telugu Kalahastisvara Satakamu of Dhurjati. Translation with Introduction, Notes and Afterword. With Hank Heifetz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Siva's Warriors: Basava Purana of Palkuriki Somanatha. Translation assisted by Gene Roghair, with a critical introduction and notes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka-Period Tamilnadu. With David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others. With A.K.Ramanujan and David Shulman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. A Poem at the Right Moment : Remembered Verses from Premodern South India. With David Shulman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology. Edited and translated With David Shulman; University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. Indian edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. 2001 3 Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry. An anthology of modern poetry translated from the Telugu, with an introduction, notes and an Afteressay, Oxford University Press, Delhi.2001 Lover’s Guide to Warrangal: Vallabharaya’s Kridabhiramamu. A 15th century parody translated from the Telugu, with an Afterword. With David Shulman. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2002 Textures of Time: Writing History in South India. With David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Indian edition: New Delhi: Permanent Black.2002; American edition: New York: Other Press, 2003. Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India. With an introduction, notes and an Afteressay. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.2003 Sound of the Kiss, or the Story that Must Never be Told: Translation of the sixteenth century Telugu Novel in verse, Kalapurnodayamu of Pinglai Surana, with an Afterword. With David Shulman. New York: Columbia University press.2003 Textures du temps Ecrire l’histoire en Inde. (with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmnayam.) French translation of Textures of Time. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2004. God On the Hill: Temple songs from Tirupati . Translation of a selection of 16th century Telugu poet Annamayya who wrote songs addressed to lord Venkatesvara of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. With David Shulman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. The Demon’s Daughter: A love story.. Translation with an afteword and notes of a 16th century novel in verse by Pingali Suranna. With David Shulman. New York: State University of New York Press, 2006. Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam. A Play from Colonial India. Translation of the Telugu play By Gurajada Apparao, with notes and an Afterword. Indiana University Press, 2007. Indian edition, Penguin, 2011. How Urvashi was Won. Tr. of Kalidasa’s Vikaramorvasiya. With David Shulman. Clay Sanskrit Library, 2009. A Doll’s Wedding and Other Stories. Tr. of short stories by Chaso. With David Shulman. With an Afterword. New Delhi: Penguin, India, 2012. Srinatha: The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings. (with David Shulman)., New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Story of Manu: Manucaritramu of Allasani Peddana. 16th century Telugu Courtly Poem, 4 with an introduction and notes. With David Shulman. Murty Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. Books Forthcoming: Text and Tradition in South India. From Permanent Black, Delhi Ha Ha Hu Hu and Vishnu Sarma Learns English. Translation of two novellas by Viswanatha Satyanarayana, with an introduction and Afterword, from Penguin India Theft of a Tree. Sixteenth century courtly poem by Nandi Timmana, with introduction and notes. In collaboration with Harshita Kamath. From Murty Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 2. Articles or Chapters in books "Political Novel in Telugu." Politics and the Novel in India. Edited by Yogendra K. Malik. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975. Pp. 94-105. “Banditry in Mogul India: Historical and Folk Perspectives," with John Richards. IndianEconomic and Social History Review. 17 (1980). Pp. 95-120. Reprinted in Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. eds. The Moghul State: 1526-1750. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. "Ha Ha Hu Hu." Tr. of a novel by Viswanatha Satyanarayana. Journal of South Asian Literature, 16.1 (1981). pp. 103-31. "Horse Headed Gods and White Skinned Men: A Second Look at 'Ha Ha Hu Hu' of Viswanatha Satyanarayana." Journal of South Asian Literature, 16.1 (1981). pp. 132-45. The following articles in Adingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, edited by Keith Crim. Nashville, Tennessee: Adingdon Press, 1981: Agastya, p. 13 Bali, p. 89 Hanuman, p. 294 Laksmana, p. 421 Rama, p. 597 Ramayana of Valmiki. Pp. 599-600 Sanskrit, Language and Religious Literature, pp. 654-56 Sita. Pp. 695-96 Valmiki, p. 783 "Proverbs and Riddles." Indian Folklore I, CIIL Folklore Series 3, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1981. Pp. 22-31. 5 "Telugu Intellectuals' Role in the Process of Social Change." South Asian Intellectuals and Social Change edited by Yogendra L. Malik. New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1982. Pp. 308-38. "Valladu the Hero." Tr. of Viravalladu, a novel by Visvanatha Satyanarayana, with a Foreword. Journal of South Asian Literature, 17.2 (1982). Pp. 193-224. "Afterword: A Structural View of Viravalladu." Journal of South Asian Literature. 17.2 (1982). Pp. 225-35. "A Selection of Modern Telugu Poetry." Tr. with Carlo Coppola. Journal of South Asian Literature. 20.1(1985). Pp. 169-93. "From For the Lord of the Animals." Tr. with Hank Heifetz from Dhurjati's Kalahastisvara Satakamu. Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation. 14 (1986). pp. 200-202. "Epics and Ideologies: Six Telugu Folk Epics," in Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India, edited by Stuart Blackburn and A. K. Ramanujan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. pp. 131-65. The following folk tales from Andhra Pradesh, selected and translated in Folk tales of India, edited by Brenda E. F. Beck, et al, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1987: “Borrowed Earrings.” Pp. 207. “Tenali Ramalingadu.” Pp. 236-38. “Our Wife.” Pp. 246-47. “I'll Take Two.” p. 247. The following articles in the Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. “Hanuman.” Pp. 6:194-95. “ Ramayana.” Pp. 12:213-15. “Rama.” Pp. 12:208-09. “Tulsidas.” Pp. 15:81. “Valmiki.” Pp. 15:184-85. "The Sinless Man." Parabola, 12.2. Summer 1987. Pp. 72-74. "Tricking the Goddess: Cowherd Katamaruju and Goddess Ganga in the Telugu Folk Epic," in Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism, edited by Alf Hiltebeitel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. Pp. 105-121. "History, Biography and Poetry at the Tanjavur Nayaka Court." (with David Shulman) in Social Analysis. 25, September 1989, special issue on Identity, Consciousness and the Past: The South Asian Scene. ed. H.L. Seneviratne. Pp. 115-130. "Courts and Lawyers: Images from Literature and Folklore", in Law, Politics and Society in India, edited by Yogindra K. Malik and Dhirendra Vajpeyi. Delhi: Chanakya Publications. 1990. Pp. 196-214. "A Ramayana of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu," in Many Ramayanas: 6 The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, edited by Paula Richman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 114-136. "Powers of Parody in Nayaka Period Tanjavur," with David Shulman, in Gender Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions, edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank Korom and Margaret Mills. 1992. Pp. 428-464 "Marriage-Broker for a God: The Tanjavur Nayakas in the Mannarukuti Temple." (with David Shulman), in The Sacred Center as the Focus of Political Interest, edited by Hans Bakker, Groningen Oriental Studies. Vol. VI Egbert Forsten: Groningen, 1992. Pp. 179-203. "Purana as Brahminic Ideology." in Purana Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts, edited by Wendy Doniger. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. 85-100; 265-266. Review of Philip Lutgendorf's Life of a Text: Ramacaritmanas of Tulsidas, Journal of Asian Studies, 54 (2), May 1995. Pp.
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