Tyler Williams

Tyler Williams is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. A Hindi scholar, Williams’ research interests include book history, literacy, aesthetics, and mercantile religious and literary culture in South Asia. He is currently working on two research projects: the first is a social and material history of vernacular reading practices in North India; the second is a study of the role of merchant communities in shaping Hindi literary tastes bhakti religious sensibilities in the early modern period.