Rishi Mahendran Nair
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentAsian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Rishi Mahendran Nair (姓名: 江智源) is an Master's student in the East Asian Languages & Civilizations (Chinese) Program. He received his Bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies at Western Washington University where he chiefly studied under advisors Dr. Julian Siyuan Wu and Dr. Ethan Bushelle.
What drives his research in Chinese poetry are questions related to the complex relationship between the religious, literary worlds, and how their environments continuously interact in the creation, evaluation, product, and culture of poetry from the Six Dynasties (220 - 589 CE) through the Tang (618 - 907 CE). His current projects revolve around poetry creation as religious practice.
Rishi also pursues subjects related to Chinese-Indian Studies in various comparative frameworks such as comparative literature, religion, and culture.
B.A. East Asian Studies (Concentration: Chinese Studies), Western Washington University
- Religious dimensions of poetry and literati culture in Medieval China
- The Chinese environmental imagination
- Sino-Buddhist scripture as literature
- Sino-Indian Studies
Transcribing Heaven: Lu Ji's Wenfu and the Making of Chinese Literary Spirituality
A Scholar in Disguise: The Hagiography of Huineng and its Literati Resonances
The Lotus and Other Indian Images in Chinese Literature