Professor
V. Narayana Rao

Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia

Ph.D. Andhra University, 1975

Office: 1236 Van Hise Hall
Phone: 608/262-5844
E-mail: vnrao@facstaff.wisc.edu

Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam. A Play from Colonial India. Translation of the Telugu play by Gurajada Apparao, with notes and an Afterword. Indiana University Press. 2007.

The Demon’s Daughter: A Love Story. Translation with an afteword and notes of a 16th century novel in verse by Pingali Suranna. With David Shulman. New York: State University of New York Press. 2006

God On the Hill: Temple Songs from Tirupati . Translation of a selection of 16th century Telugu poet Annamayya who wrote songs addressed to lord Venkatesvara of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. With David Shulman. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005

Textures du temps Ecrire l’histoire en Inde. (with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmnayam.) French translation of Textures of Time. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2004.

Hibiscus from the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India. With an introduction, notes and an Afteressay. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2003

Sound of the Kiss, or the Story that Must Never be Told: Translation of the 16th century Telugu Novel in verse, Kalapurnodayamu of Pingali Surana,with an Afterword. With David Shulman. New York: Columbia University Press.2003

Textures of Time: Writing History in South India. With David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Indian edition: Permanent Black. Delhi. 2002. American edition: New York: Other Press. 2003

Lover's Guide to Warrangal: Vallabharaya's Kridabhiramamu. A 15th century parody translated from Telugu, with an Afterword. With David Shulman. New Delhi: Permanent Black, Delhi.2002

Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry. An Anthology of modern poetry translated from Telugu, with an introduction, notes and an Afteressay, Oxford University Press, Delhi. 2001

Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology. Edited and translated with David Shulman; : University of Berkeley, 2002. Indian edition, Oxford University Press, Dehlhi. 2001

A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern India, with David Shulman. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1998.

When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others. With A. K. Ramanujan and David Shulman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.

Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka - Period Tamilnadu, with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1992.

"Urmila Sleeps: A Telugu Women's Song of Sita". In Manushi, 153, March-April, 2006, Pp. 14-21.

"Politics of An Epic: Colonialism, Print Culture and Literary Movements in Telugu Ramayanas." In Questioning Ramayanas, edited by Paula Richman. Berkleley: University of California Press. 2001.

"Literature." A review in India's Worlds and US Scholars: 1947-1997, edited by Joseph W. Elder, Edward C. Dimock and Einslie T. Embree. Delhi: Manohar and American Institute of Indian Studies, 335-355. 1998. Pp.335-353

"Texture and Authority: Telugu Riddles and Enigmas." In Untying the Knot: On Riddles and other Enigmatic Modes, edited by. Galit-Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.191-207

"Coconut and Honey: Sanskrit and Telugu in Premodern Andhra." Social Scientist 23 (10-12), October-December, 1996. pp. 24-40.

"Purana as Brahminic Ideology." In Purana Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts, edited by Wendy Doniger. New York: SUNY Press. 1993.

"A Ramayana of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu." In Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, edited by Paula Richman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 114-136.