DALPAT S RAJPUROHIT

Department of Asian Studies, WCH 4.104B University of Texas at Austin 120 Inner Campus Dr Stop G9300 Austin, TX 78712-1251 Email: [email protected] Office: 512-471-1219

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Presidency University, Kolkata, 2019

M.Phil. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2007

M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005

B.A. Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, 2002

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019 - present.

Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 2018-2019

Lecturer, -Urdu: Columbia University, New York (July 2008 to June 2018).

Hindi Instructor: American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), New Delhi and Jaipur, India (May 2007 - March 2008).

Hindi Instructor: Study Abroad Program, University of Washington, Nainital, India (October - December 2006).

Hindi instructor: Hindi for foreign students, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (January 2006 - May 2006).

OTHER

Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Peer-reviewed two articles

Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (ISSN 0219-9874), http://e- flt.nus.edu.sg/, External Reviewer 2016 to current, Peer-reviewed two articles

Anagh (An International Journal of Hindi Language, Literature and Culture), Member editorial board 2017-current. Peer reviewed several articles. Hindi consultant for Sesame Street: Supervised Hindi Learning Apps developed by Sesame Street in 2012.

Translator, Hindi into English, National Mission For Manuscripts, IGNCA, New Delhi (March –July 2006) Completed project for Ministry of Culture, Government of India for editing and translating lectures and articles by Hindi writers and historians.

STUENT ADVISING

Comprehensive Exam Committee Member: Justin Ben-Hain, Ph.D. Asian Studies.

Campus Advisor (University of Texas at Austin) for State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 2018 to present & Columbia University (2014-18).

SERVICE

Member, Executive Committee, Department of Asian Studies (DAS), UT-Austin, 2019- 2020.

Member, Hindi Lecturer Search Committee, DAS, Spring 2019.

Member, FLAS Applications review committee, South Asia Institute at UT, 2019-2020 & 2018-2019.

Member, Academic Steering Committee, Language Instruction Committee and TA/AI Assignment Committee, DAS at UT, 2018-19.

COURSES

University of Texas at Austin HIN 330/384 Panorama of Hindi literature HIN 330/384 Debates in Hindi literature HIN 330/384 Hindi Drama and Film ANS 340/ R S 341 Devotional literature of India ANS 372/HIS 364 G Literature and Culture of Early Modern India

Columbia University, New York First to Third year Hindi-Urdu Hindi for Heritage Speakers Readings in Hindi literature HONORS & AWARDS Nominated and shortlisted for Columbia University's Presidential Teaching Award in 2011. I was shortlisted among the 14 finalists out of 200 nominations.

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), awarded by the University Grants Commission of India in June 2006.

National Eligibility Test (NET) for assistant professorship (Hindi) held by University Grants Commission – India; passed in June 2005 and December 2005.

State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) for assistant professorship in Hindi (), 2005.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

2018 “Making the War Come Alive: Ḍiṅgal poetry and Padmākar’s Himmatbahādur Birdāvalī" in Text and Tradition in Early Modern India, ed. John Stratton Hawley, Tyler Williams, Anshu Malhotra, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2017 Santkavi Sundardās aur 17vīṅ Sadī ke Sattā Pratiṣṭhān (Poet-Saint Sundardas and the 17th Century Elite Institutions), in Sammelan Patrikā [a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of Hindi literature], Hindi Sāhitya Sammelan, Allahabad, April-June 2017, 67-76.

2016 "Brahmānand and His Innovations in the Bārahmāsā Genre" in Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation and Identity, ed. Raymond Williams and Yogi Trivedi, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 218-232.

2016 Bhakti kā Kāvyaśāstra: Dādūpanthī Sundardās kā Rītikāvya se Samvād (The poetics of Bhakti: Dādūpanthī Sundardās’s Dialogue with Courtly Hindi Poetry) in Śodh- Hastakśep [a bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of Hindi literature], Vol.6, No.12, July- December, 1-10.

2015 Caumāsā lokgīt aur Bārahmāsā (Poetry of seasons) in Lok Sānskritik Paramparā: Ek Anuśīlan (A Study of the Folk Traditions of India), ed. Mahipal Singh Rathore, Jodhpur: Rājasthānī Granthāgar, 90-96.

2013 "Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry: The Dādūpanth and Sarvaṅgī Literature" in Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early Modern Literatures in North India, 2003 to 2009, ed. Imre Banga, Delhi: Manohar, 51-72.

2008 Madhyakālīn Santbānī Sanklan kī "Sarvaṅgī" Paramparā aur Bhakti Samvedanā (The "Sarvangī" Anthology Tradition of Early Modern India and Bhakti Sensibility) in Ālocanā (special issue on Bhakti-Kāl) (October-December) [a quarterly journal in Hindi], Chief editor Namwar Singh, 45-54.

(ARTICLES IN NATIONAL DAILIES)

2015 Bisrā Dī Gayī Pāṭhśālā (A Forgotten School of Brajbhāṣā) in Jansattā, June 28.

2013 Hindī kā Vismrit Atīt (The Forgotten Past of Hindi) in Jansattā, October 27.

TRANSLATIONS

BRAJ INTO ENGLISH: Currently working on a translation project ‘Historical poetry by Padmākar and Mān Kavi (fl. 1800), in collaboration with Allison Busch (Associate professor of Hindi literature, Columbia University) and William Pinch (Professor of History, Wesleyan University)

Brajbhāṣā court poetry (verses of Sundar Kavirāy, Keśavdās and Matirām), Translated for Rob Dean Art: Asian Art in London, for an exhibition ‘Indian paintings: Ancient and Modern’, November, 2012

The Weaver's Song: Hindi Bhajans of early modern North India (Music Album) - Translated with Prof. Stan Scott. Rangila World Music ™ 001, 2011

RAJASTHANI AND HINDI INTO ENGLISH: "Tomorrow We Disappear," a documentary on India’s last colony of magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers. Old friends, New York, Oct. 2012.

TALKS

“Religion and Ecology: the Bishnoi Community of Rajasthan” in an international conference the teachings of Guru Jambhoji’s (15-16th century) and environment conservation. Jai Narayan Vyas University Jodhpur, June 5-6, 2019.

“Teaching Hindi as a foreign language”, at the ICCR Hindi Chair Abroad Orientation, ICCR, New Delhi, June 6-8, 2018.

"Why Study Hindi?" at Sathaye College, Mumbai, 7/24/2017

“Meters in Pre-Modern Hindi Poetry”, University of Chicago, USA, 05/09/2017

“Student politics in India”, Quest University, Canada, 03/11/2016

"A Dialogue between Sufi and Bhakti Poetry" on the event celebrating the Confluence of Bhakti and Sufi literature and Music in South Asia. Association for Pakistan and Urdu Studies at New York University, 12/07/13

Discussant on "Retelling the Mahābhārata in Urdu: Rendering its poetics, myths and symbols as Daastaan and reading of a Mahābhārat Story," organized by Sangam (the Hindi and Urdu Programs at New York Uuniversity), 11/16/13 CONFERENCES

“Performing Bhakti in Courtly Genres” in Performing Bhakti: An Artistic Array, Yale University, May 3-5, 2019.

"The Poetics of a Sant: Sundardas and his Metrical Discourse" in the 12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 8/15/2015-8/19/2015.

"Gujarati Love Poetry by Brahmānand" in an international conference organized by the historical council, New Delhi, 8/2/2013-8/4/2013.

"Making the War Come Alive: Ḍingal Poetry and Padmākar’s Himmatbahādur Birdāvalī" in the 11th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (India) 8/3/2012-8/6/2012.

"The Textualization of Bhakti Poetry and the Dādūpanth" in the Annual South Asia Conference Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.

"The Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry” in the 10th International Bhakti Conference held in Transylvania, Romania, 7/21/2009-7/23/2009.

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & CONFERENCES

Led two reading sessions in the Annual Early Hindi Retreat at Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2019.

Organized a teacher training workshop for South Asian language teachers of Dallas, Fort Worth and Frisco areas: “Communicative Strategies and Literacy Teaching in South Asian Language Classroom,” Frisco, TX 12/08/2018

Presented on "Teaching Hindi as Second Language’ in a national seminar, "Hindi in the 21st Century: Challenges and Possibilities" at Somaiya College, Mumbai, 7/20/2017- 7/21/2017.

Co-facilitated and presented in Columbia University’s annual Hindi-Urdu workshop on "Hindi-Urdu metrics," Columbia University, 4/8/2017.

Organized and presented in the teacher training workshop "Teaching Hindi-Urdu through Short Films and T.V. Programs: Three Modes of Communications," NYU, 3/31/2017.

Presented on "Developing Curricula for Upper Level Hindi Courses" at the 4th International Hindi Conference, held at Gitam University, Visakhapattanum, India 1/6/2017-1/8/2017. Discussant and chair of a panel "Innovative Instructional Strategies" at the 4th International Hindi Conference, held at Gitam University, Visakhapattanum, India, 1/6/2017-1/8/2017.

Presented on "Teaching through Video Modules in Differentiated Classrooms’ at the Language Resource Center (LRC), Columbia University, 04/8/2016.

Presented "A Lesson on the Indian Festival of Lights: Diwali’ at STARTALK teacher- training workshop organized by NYU, 12/4/2015.

Co-facilitated and presented in Columbia University’s annual Hindi-Urdu workshop on "Hindi War Poetry," Columbia University, 4/11/2015.

Discussant and presenter in a workshop, "Teaching Hindi and Urdu Together: Advantages and Challenges," Princeton University, 09/25/2015.

Presented in "Building Infrastructure: The Role of the Standards and Technology in Hindi and Urdu Teaching," sponsored by STARTALK Initiatives, Kean University and STARTALK at NYU, New York University, 2/21/2015.

Discussant on a panel "Differentiated Learning - Reaching New Heights," in the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) conference in Chicago, 4/24/2014-4/27/2014.

Gave a talk on "Language Teaching through Poetry and Literature," organized by STARTALK at NYU and Columbia University at Columbia University, 02/28/14.

“History of the Hindi short story” in the Hindi-Urdu and Punjabi Short Story Workshop, organized by the Hindi-Urdu program at Columbia University in spring 2013.

Gave a talk on "How to Teach a Short Story to Language Learners," organized by the Hindi and Urdu Programs at NYU, spring 2012.

LANGUAGES

Research in Braj, Avadhi, Dingal and Gujarati Hindi, Rajasthani (Native speaker) Urdu (Advanced level proficiency) (Reading knowledge)