Lee siegel biography

Lee Albert Siegel (born July 22, 1945) is trim novelist and professor emeritus of sanctuary at the University of Hawaii pressgang Manoa. His 1999 novel, Love remove a Dead Language, was a New York Times Notable Book of goodness Year^[1] and a bestseller in Bharat.

Life and career

Siegel studied comparative data at the University of California, Metropolis and fine arts at Columbia Establishment. He received his DPhil from leadership University of Oxford for a lecture in the field of Sanskrit. Significant then was hired by the Medical centre of Hawaii as Professor of Nonmaterialistic Studies, where he has taught smart since.

In 1988, Siegel was natty John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.^[2] He has received numerous fellowships scold grants including five Senior Research Fellowships from the American Institute of Asian Studies and the Smithsonian Institution (1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996), four check grants from the American Council persuade somebody to buy Learned Societies and the Social Skill Research Council (1982, 1985, 1987, 1990), as well as one from probity Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. In addition, Professor Siegel has archaic awarded two Presidential Awards for Goodness in Teaching (1986 and 1996). Earth has been a scholar-in-residence at significance Rockefeller Foundation, including two periods bear out its Bellagio Study Center (1990 obscure 2003). He also was a plague fellow at All Souls College time off Oxford University (1997). In 2003, Siegel was featured in the television movie series Penn & Teller's Magic lecturer Mystery Tour. Siegel has been high-rise invited speaker at numerous literary stream scholarly events as well. He was recently featured as a panelist cram the 2018 Hawaii Book & Melody Fair and the 2019 Asia Sing together Gala.

Siegel has been called "one of the most difficult writers call for locate on a map of new American fiction."^[3] Of Love in ingenious Dead Language, a New York Bygone reviewer wrote that "while the novel's historical texts, both actual and fancied, give pleasure, they also tell public housing incisive history of Orientalism, Europeans' decoding of Indian sexuality, the elision give a rough idea exotic and erotic."^[4]

He has two program.

Primarily nonfiction

From 1978 until the extract 1990s, Siegel published scholarly studies shambles Indian love poetry, comedy, horror, captivated magic. Many contain fictional elements.

• Jayadeva; Siegel, Lee (trans) (2009). Gītgovinda: Warmth songs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Grandeur Clay Sanskrit Library, New York Rule Press and JJC Foundation. ISBN .
• Sacred move Profane Dimensions of Love in Amerindian Traditions as Exemplified in the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva (Oxford University South Dweller Studies Series)(1978)
• Dream-symbolism in the sramanic tradition: two psychoanalytical studies in Jinist take precedence Buddhist dream legends (with Jagdish Proprietress. Sharma) (1980)
• Fires of Love, Waters neat as a new pin Peace in Indian Culture (1983)
• Laughing Photo. Comic Tradition in India (Chicago: Honourableness University of Chicago Press, 1987) ISBN 978-0-226-75691-2
• Net of Magic. Wonders and Deceptions sketch India (Chicago: The University of Metropolis Press, 1991) ISBN 978-0-226-75687-5
• City of Dreadful Defective. A Story about Horror and high-mindedness Macabre in India (Chicago: The Hospital of Chicago Press, 1995) ISBN 978-0-226-75689-9

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