Kevin McGrath is an Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research centers on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata; he has published six works on this topic, The Sanskrit Hero, Stri, Jaya, Heroic Krsna, Arjuna Pandava, and Raja Yudhisthira (forthcoming). and is presently concluding a study of the authoritative hero Bhisma. McGrath is Poet in Residence at Harvard’s Lowell House, and his most recent publications are Eroica, Supernature, which are both I-Books, and Windward, and Eros(forthcoming). He does fieldwork in the Kacch of Western Gujarat, studying kinship, landscape, and migration; In the Kacch, is a personal memoir of this work. The hero as a figure for humanistic analysis is the focus of much of McGrath's scholarly research, particularly as expressed in the poetry of Bronze Age preliterate and premonetary culture.
