submitted: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:58:01 -0600
Burt Thorp, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of English P.O. Box 7209 University Station University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209 USA phone: 701-777-2787 fax: 701-777-3650 email: bthorp@plains.nodak.edu url: http://www.und.edu/instruct/bthorp Description of work: Ph.D., 1986, University of California, Los Angeles in Indic Languages and Literatures, Dissertation Advisor: Hartmut E. F. Scharfe My dissertation was on the Mahabharata and related topics. Publication: "When Bhimasena Met Hanuman." In: The Persistence of Religions: Essays in Honor of Kees W. Bolle. Ed by Sara J. Denning-Bolle and Edwin Gerow. Malibu: Undena Publications, 1996. Presently teaching: General Literature courses, World Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Research Interests: Indian Epic, Interdisciplinary Studies, Comparative Poetics and Rhetoric