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Indian author to be scholar-in-residence at Iowa State

Arshai Sattar , a founding professional faculty at Mahindra United World College of India will be a scholar-in-residence at Iowa State University Feb. 5-10.

Sattar's appearance on campus is sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program.

While at Iowa State, Sattar will give two public lectures including "You Can't Always Get Who You Want: Women and Sexual Desire in the Plays of Girish Karand." That lecture will take place in 302 Catt Hall beginning at noon on Monday, Feb. 7.

Then on Wednesday, Feb. 9, Sattar will speak on "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Bollywood, Documentary Film and Censorship in India" beginning at 7 p.m. in The Gallery in the Memorial Union.

Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Sattar's areas of interest are Indian epics, mythology and the story traditions of the subcontinent. Her articles appear in various national newspapers and magazines in India.

In her translation of the Indian epic Valmiki's Ramayana, Sattar successfully bridged both time and space to make this ancient classic accessible to the present day English reader. Her translation of Tales from the Kathasaritsagara was published in 1995.

She has taught as a visiting professor at a number of international universities including the University of East Anglia (UK) and is currently a visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.