Allison Busch (1969 - 2019), Associate Professor of Hindi Literature in the Department of of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
Allison Busch received her B.A. from University of British Columbia in 1992,and her Ph.D. in Hindi literature from the University of Chicago in 2003. From 2001 to 2005, she taught at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 2005, she joined Columbia as an Assistant Professor in Hindi and she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011.
Through her groundbreaking work on classical Hindi literature, she awoke a fresh appreciation for aesthetic experiences that had long been devalued. She shared her superb knowledge of the history and politics, as well as the music, wit, beauty and pathos of classical Hindi literature in her lectures and in numerous publications. For a complete bibliography and repository of her digital works, visit this page on the Columbia Libraries website.
