Ramya Sreenivasan

Ramya Sreenivasan (born 1966) is an Indian scholar of English and early modern Indian history. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She was originally appointed in the Department of South Asian Studies in 2009. Best known for her book The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, she is a winner of the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize. Biography Ramya Sreenivasan obtained her BA in English in 1988, followed by an MA in English two years later, both from the University of Delhi. In 2002, she received a PhD in English from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her dissertation was titled Gender, Literature, History: The Transformation of the Padmini Story. Career Between 1991 and 1998, Sreenivasan was a lecturer in the Department of English at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Sreenivasan was a visiting lecturer of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Kenyon College, Ohio, between 2003 and 2004. She then joined the State University of New York, Buffalo.