Patton, Laurie L.

Laurie L. Patton is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Early Indian Religion at Emory University. She is author of "Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary "(1996), editor of "Jewels of Authority: Women and Text in the Hindu Tradition "(2002), and author of "Fire's Goal: Poems from a Hindu Year "(2003), among other books.