Overview
Larry McCrea received his Ph.D. in South Asian Languages & Civilizations in 1998 from the University of Chicago, and his BA in 1989 from Cornell University in the Cornell College Scholar Program.
His most recent book project "The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir", Harvard Oriental Series (Spring 2009), deals with the conceptual revolution in Sanskrit poetic theory brought about by the work of the ninth century Kashmiri Anandavardhana. He argues that the most crucial innovation Anandavardhana introduced in the field of poetics was his application to literary analysis of a teleological approach to text interpretation imported from the discipline of scriptural hermeneutics. (Mimamsa).
ASIAN Courses - Spring 2025
- ASIAN 3366 : Poetry of Classical India
- ASIAN 4401 : Asian Studies Honors Course
- ASIAN 4402 : Asian Studies Honors: Senior Essay
- ASIAN 4404 : Supervised Reading
- ASIAN 7704 : Directed Research
SANSK Courses - Spring 2025
ASIAN Courses - Fall 2025
- ASIAN 4401 : Asian Studies Honors Course
- ASIAN 4402 : Asian Studies Honors: Senior Essay
- ASIAN 4403 : Supervised Reading
- ASIAN 4446 : Classical Indian Poetry and Comparative Poetics
- ASIAN 6648 : Classical Indian Poetry and Comparative Poetics
- ASIAN 7703 : Directed Research