Alf Hiltebeitel (The George Washington University)

updated: 4/25/94

Professor Alf Hiltebeitel
Religion Department
The George Washington University
2106 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20052  USA

phones: 202-363-9497 (residence)
        202-994-0458 (office)
FAX:    202-994-0458
Email:  beitel@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
        BEITEL@gwuvm.gwu.edu

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

My main research areas are history of religions and the religions of South
Asia.  I work in Sanskrit and Tamil texts.  My primary interest is in
South Asian epic traditions:  the classical Sanskrit epics as well as
regional oral vernacular folk epics.  I have also done work in Vedic
studies.  I am interested also in the anthropology of South Asia, and in
colonial and post-colonial studies bearing on South Asian religions.  My
main work is most consistently, however, on the Mahabharata.