Carol S. Anderson

Carol S. Anderson is Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Her research encompasses religions of South Asia, with a focus on Buddhist traditions and queer approaches to the study of religions. She is author of Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in Theravāda Buddhism (Curzon Press, 1999), a festschrift in honor of Professor W. S. Karunatillake, Embedded Languages: Studies in the Religion, Culture, and History of Sri Lanka (Godage Books, 2012), and, most recently, co-editor of the journal Buddhist Christian Studies. Her most recent research project explores the range of sexualities found in the commentaries of the Pāli Buddhist canon.