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Cleo McNelly Kearns holds a Ph.D from Colubia University in comparative literature and has done post-graduate work in Biblical studies, theology and comparative religion. She is the author of T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief (Cambridge University Press and forthcoming in India in a special edition under the auspices of the Infinity Foundation) and of numerous articles on modern literature and literary theory, with a special interest in the work of Jacques Derrida. She served for several years as editor of the Cultural Criticism series of the American Academy of Religion, and during her tenure she published two books on the intersections between Indic traditions and recent trends in postmodern philosophy, including pragmatism and deconstruction. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion.
Indic Traditions, American Literature and the Third Point of View
I outline below a preliminary statement of the kind of contribution I think I might be able to make to the conference and its aims. There are several points at which I think I might enter the discussion:
Read the entire paper in PDF format (28K, 6 pp.)
Passages from Thoreau and Eliot for discussion (in PDF format, 19K, 3 pp.)