Kirin Narayan serves as Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and is the author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative as Hindu Religious Teaching and Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (co-authored with Urmila Devi Sood). She has also written a novel, Love, Stars, and All That.