His research interests include pre-modern religious literature in the Kannada language, South-Asian devotional traditions, and the vernacularization of Sanskrit poetics and courtly poetry. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2013 and is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the Kannada Śivabhakti movement, known today as “Vīraśaivism” and “Liṅgāyatism,” as it is represented in Harihara’s Śivaśaraṇara Ragaḷegaḷu, the first hagiographical corpus about the Kannada saints, written in Kannada in the early thirteenth century.