Sri Sathvik Rayala is a graduate student pursuing a Master of Theological Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. He earned his BA at Dartmouth College, from where he graduated magna cum laude with a double major in PPE and Asian Studies. His research interests broadly concern the religious traditions and histories of medieval and early modern India, particularly southern India. Effectuated through a multilingual, intertextual approach, his scholarship primarily draws on a diverse and versatile range of textual, epigraphical, and poetic materials in classical Tĕlugu, Sanskrit, and Tamiḻ, including doctrinal texts composed by Vīraśaiva, Śrīvaiṣṇava, and Mādhva intellectuals, kāvyas (sizable belletristic poems) produced in the Vijayanagara Empire and Golkŏṇḍa Sultanate, court chronicles, hagiographies, and Hindu temple epigraphs. His peer-reviewed publications feature in the JAOS, the Journal of Vaishnava Studies, and the Journal of Hindu Studies.
