Dhondup T. Rekjong

Dhondup T. Rekjong is a doctoral student in Buddhist Studies with a strong background in Tibetan history, language, and literature. He was born in Rebkong in the Amdo region of Tibet. His research concentration lies broadly at the intersections of religion, history, culture, and language. He is primarily interested in the life-writing of 20th-century Tibet. Before arriving at Northwestern, he received his MA from the University of British Columbia. His advisor is Sarah Jacoby at NU. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Asian Studies, Lion’s Roar, The Treasury of Lives, and elsewhere.

Dominique Townsend

Dominique Townsend is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College in Annandale on Hudson, NY. Her primary research interests include Tibetan Buddhist history, aesthetics, cultural production, poetics, and translation theory. Columbia University Press recently published her first scholarly monograph, A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery, in March 2021. She is also a poet and published a book of poems called The Weather & Our Tempers with Brooklyn Arts Press in 2013. She has an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Columbia University.

Laura Brueck

Laura Brueck specializes in modern and contemporary Hindi literature, with a particular focus on literatures of resistance, popular literatures, and translation studies. Her books include “Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature” (Columbia University Press, 2014/ Primus, 2017) and a collection of Hindi short stories in English translation titled “Unclaimed Terrain: Stories by Ajay Navaria” (Navayana, 2013/ Giramondo, 2015). She has edited several scholarly anthologies, most recently in the areas of vernacular literatures in South Asia and Indian sound studies. She is currently working on a monograph on Indian detective novels and co-editing the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature. She is the Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the co-founder and co-director of the Race, Caste, and Colorism Project at Northwestern.