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Meghan Hartman is a Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, specializing in South Asian religious traditions through literary analysis of Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic texts from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Her multilingual expertise spans Urdu, Persian, Sanskrit, and Classical Arabic.
Education:
- B.A., Barnard College
- Ph.D., University of Virginia (South Asian Religions)
Dr. Hartman's research interrogates intersections of religion, gender, and virtuality in South Asian contexts. Her book project Immersive Environments: Mīrājī and the Experience of Lyric Worlds analyzes how the genderbending poet Mīrājī (1912-1949) used lyric poetry as experimental space for identity transformation, with political implications for late colonial South Asia. Current projects explore transgender narratives in the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, Sanskrit-Persian translation history, and digital recreation of poetic worlds through virtual reality.
At Barnard, she teaches Introduction to Hinduism, More than Real: Dreams, Imagination, and Virtual Reality in South Asian Religions, and Religion Lab—the latter training students in ethical research methodologies while confronting structures of inequity through humane scholarship frameworks. While specific advising details and grant funding aren't documented in source materials, her pedagogy emphasizes practical application of interpretive approaches to address social justice.
