Paula Richman

Richman was faculty at Swarthmore College, Western Washington University, and Colby College before becoming a member of the faculty at Oberlin College in 1985.^[4] In 1997, she was named to the Irvin E. Houck professorship in Humanities for a period of five years.^[4] During her career, she traveled to conduct lectures, including to India and Copenhagen.^[4][5]

Richman and her co-editor Rustom Bharucha spent eight years developing the book Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations and Arguments, which includes essays, photographs, interviews, and scripts for theatrical productions, and was published in 2021.^[6]

• Bynum, Caroline Walker; Harrell, Stevan; Richman, Paula, eds. (1986). Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols. Boston: Beacon Press.^[7][8]
• Richman, Paula (1988). Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text. Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.^[9][10][11]
• Richman, Paula, ed. (1991). Many Rāmāyanas. Berkeley: University of California Press.^{[12][13][14][15]}
• Cutler, Norman; Richman, Paula, eds. (1992). A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature. In Honor of K. Paramasivam. Manohar: American Institute of Indian Studies.^[16]
• Richman, Paula (1997). Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.^[17]
• Richman, Paula, ed. (2001). Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.^[18][19][20]
• Richman, Paula, ed. (2008). Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21953-4.^[21][22]
• Richman, Paula; Bharucha, Rustom, eds. (2021). Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197552506.^[23]