Dr. Sushumna Kannan received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru, India. Her research on the South Asian devotional traditions and feminist epistemology focused on the medieval saint, Akka Mahadevi and her vachanas. She was a recipient of the BOURSE MIRA, French research fellowship in 2006 and 2007 and the Sir Ratan Tata fellowship for Ph.D. Coursework and Writing in 2003 and 2007.
Dr. Kannan has published her research on bhakti, dharma shastras, ethics, women’s writing in Kannada and English as well as on translation theory in peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters. She was affiliated to the San Diego State University for five years. She received the Indic Academy fellowship in Indic feminism to study “Women’s subjectivity in the dharma texts” in 2021. She is currently working on a book project, Hinduism, Violence and Nonviolence and is finishing an essay on “The Mahabharata as a stri-shudra text.” Dr. Kannan is currently Scholar-in-Residence at Indic Academy.
At Hindu University of America, her focus is on courses in bhakti, dharma shastras, caste, and gender.
For some of her non-academic writing, visit: www.sushumnakannan.weebly.com
