Srinivas Reddy

Speaker

Srinivas Reddy is a scholar, translator and musician. He studied classical South Asian languages and literatures (Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu) at UC Berkeley, and learned music from his guru and mentor Sri Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee.

Srinivas is Guest Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at IIT Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Contemplative Studies at Brown University.

Srinivas is a noted author. Through Penguin Books, Srinivas has released two translations of Kalidasa: The Dancer and the King (Malavikagnimitram) and The Cloud Message (Meghadutam). His most recent work is Raya : Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara (Juggernaut 2020), a critical biography of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara.

Anne Hofmann

Moderator

Anne Hofmann is a professor of English and the chair of the English and Humanities department at Frederick Community College.

She has been recognized as a national leader among community college faculty, winning both the FCC Michael D. Boyd Memorial Faculty Award and the Dr. Carol Eaton Innovation Award. Anne teaches a variety of writingintensive courses that center the construction of gender, race, and class in the US.

She holds an MEd in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction, an MA in English Literature, and is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Anne is a passionate educator, a scholar-activist, a lifetime athlete, and a mother of two independent and spirited young people.