Elaine Craddock Associate Professor, Chair Department of Religion and Philosophy MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley BA, Smith College Location: RAC 101 Phone: 512-863-1963 Religion/Philosophy Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Associate Professor, Southwestern University, 2000-present Assistant Professor SU, Southwestern University, 1994-2000   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Brown Fellowship; Cullen Grants; UC Berkeley Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship; Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant for India; American Institute of Indian Studies Advanced Language Fellowship for Tamil   RESEARCH AREAS Hindu devotional traditions, in particular South Indian Shaivite traditions; Tantrism; intersections of feminist and post-colonial theory with religious studies. I am currently working on a manuscript on the life and poetry of the medieval Tamil woman poet Karaikkal Ammaiyar.   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS "The Anatomy of Devotion: The Life and Poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar," in Beyond the Circle: Women's Rituals, Women's Lives in Hindu Traditions, ed. by Tracy Pintchman. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. "Shakti," in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, 2004 "The Chipko Movement," in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, 2004 "Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Shakti in a Tamil Village," in Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, ed. by Tracy Pintchman (New York: SUNY, 2001) "Tamil Religion/Tamil as Religion," Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1998 Contributor to A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature, ed. by Norman Cutler and Paula Richman (Delhi: Manohar/American Institute of Indian Studies, 1992)   MORE INFORMATION Who's Who from SU Profile