Linda Hess
American religious studies scholar
About Linda Hess
Linda Hess was an American religious studies scholar, university teacher and translator.
Linda Beth Hess (born September 1942) Originally raised in Judaism, she became interested in Indian culture after reading the work of Emerson and Thoreau, as well as the Walt Whitman poem "Passage to India".
After working as an English lecturer at Elphinstone College from 1965 to 1966, Hess obtained a BA in English from Stanford University with great distinction and honors in humanities in 1968.
After working as a visiting assistant professor at Barnard College and Dartmouth College in the 1980s, Hess worked as assistant professor in South and Southeast Asian studies at UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1994. She has published several books related to Kabir, A Touch of Grace: Songs of Kabir (1994) Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India (2015)
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