Jesse Knutson, Ph.D.

" केयूरा न विभूषयन्ति पुरुषं हारा न चन्द्रोज्ज्वला

न स्नानं न विलेपनं न कुसुमं नालाङ्कृता मूर्धजाः।

वाण्येका समलङ्करोति पुरुषं या संस्कृता धार्यते

क्षीयन्ते खलु भूषणानि सततं वाग्भूषणं भूषणम्।।

—भरतृहरेः

Education

• Ph.D. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, May 2009.
• M.A. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, May 2005.
• M.A. South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, May 2002.
• B.A. (with honors and departmental citation), South and Southeast Asian Studies,
  University of California, Berkeley, May 2000.

Research Interests

Sanskrit literature and literary theory, ancient and early medieval history and literary history of South Asia, Early Middle Bengali poetry, comparative premodern poetry and poetics.

Employment

• 8/2021-Present. Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature.
• 8/2019- 8/2021: Chair Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University
  of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
• Fall 2017-Present: Associate Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature, Department
  of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
• Fall 2013-Spring 2017: Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature,
  Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
• Academic Year 2012-13: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and
  Civilizations, Seoul National University.
• Academic Year 2010-12: Visiting Assistant Professor, A.C.L.S. Mellon New Faculty
  Fellows Program, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of
  California, Berkeley.
• Summer 2010: Lecturer for Intensive Intermediate Sanskrit at the University of
  Wisconsin Madison South Asian Summer Language Institute.
• Summer 2009: Lecturer for Intensive Intermediate Sanskrit at the University of
  Wisconsin Madison South Asian Summer Language Institute.
• Academic Year 2008-9: Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of Asian Languages and
  Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
• Summer 2008: Lecturer for Intensive Intermediate Sanskrit at the University of
  Wisconsin Madison South Asian Summer Language Institute.