McDermott, Rachel Fell

Rachel Fell McDermott is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College and author of "Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal "(2001) and "Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal "(2001). Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Lynette S. Autry Associate Professor in the Humanities at Rice University and author most recently of "Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism "(2001).