Ellen Goldberg (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)

Ellen Goldberg
Associate Professor of South Asian Studies and Graduate Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Queen's School of Religion
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, K7L3N6, CANADA

email: eg7@queensu.ca

Description of work:

Ellen Goldberg is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at 
Queens University, Kingston, Canada. Ellen obtained an MA and a PhD in 
Religious Studies from the Centre for the Study of Religion at the 
University of Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral work published in 2002 under 
the title "The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian and 
Feminist Perspective" (SUNY Press) includes an extensive analysis of the 
significance of Ardhanarisvara in hatha and tantric yoga. Goldberg has 
also written several articles on the intersection between yoga and 
cognitive science. She is currently working on "Swami Krpalvananda" for a 
book edited with Mark Singleton titled "Gurus of Modern Yoga" and has an 
article on "Amrit Desai and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Holistic 
Health" in Lola Williamson and Anne Gleig's forthcoming book titled 
"Homegrown Gurus: From Homegrown in America to American Hinduism" (SUNY 
Press). Ellen's other projects include articles on "Parvati" and 
"Ardhanarisvara" for the newly launched Oxford Online Bibliographic Series 
and a book in preparation on Swami Krpalvananda's contributions to modern 
yoga.