Philip Lutgendorf

Philip Lutgendorf is an American Indologist. He is the professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. His areas of interest include the Ramcharitmanas, life and works of Tulsidas, worship of Hanuman, Indian popular cinema, and the culture of chai in India. He is currently translating the Ramcharitmanas into English, this translation will be published by the Murty Classical Library of India in seven volumes. He serves as the President of American Institute of Indian Studies.

Honors

• A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize for the book The Life of a Text.
• Guggenheim Fellowship for research on the Hindu god Hanuman. 2002-03.
• Fulbright-Hays fellowship for research on the cultural history of “chai” (tea) In India. 2014.

Selected Bibliography

• The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, University of California Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0520066908.
• Ramcaritmanas Word Index/Manas shabda anukramanika (with Winand M. Callewaert), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, New Delhi. 1997. ISBN 817304208X.
• From the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, Book Five: Sundar Kand, Indian Literature, vol. XLV, no. 3: 143-181.
• Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey, New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780199885824.
• The Indo-Aryan languages, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002 ISBN 0-7007-1130-9
• Tulsidas: The Epic of Ram (7 volumes), Murty Classical Library of India: Harvard University Press. Forthcoming.

External links

• Philip Lutgendorf's webpage on the website of University of Iowa
• philip's fil-ums: notes on Indian popular cinema by Philip Lutgendorf