It’s been such an honor in the last year or so to collaborate with Tibetan women writers, Tsedron Kyi and Tsering Yangzom Lama, alongside scholars Somtso Bhum and Dawa Lokyitsang in their Ph.D. programs at Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder, respectively.

I have been moved by our conversations and the many twists and turns in thematic focus and textual analysis that emerge through the collaborative process. This has been possible due to the various gatherings with Tibetan women writers since April 2022 at UVA, CU Boulder, Northwestern, and INALCO. It is so enriching to engage with authors about their own writings and be informed by the perspectives and concerns of young Tibetan scholars.

In these collaborations, I have shifted focus from contemporary Buddhist literature on the Tibetan plateau to contemporary Tibetan literature with Buddhist themes (both on the plateau and in exile) while maintaining a focus on women, gender, and sexuality.

Here are the results of these collaborations in online journals:

• “Capturing the Quotidian in the Everyday Renunciation of Buddhist Nuns in Tibet,”
  co-authored with Somtso Bhum. Journal of Tibetan Literature 2.1 (July 2023): 45–72.
• “Intergenerational Trauma and the Oracular Voice in Tsering Yangzom Lama’s Debut Novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies.”
  Yeshe: Journal of Tibetan Arts, Literature and Humanities 3.1 (July 2023).
• “Decolonizing Praxis: In Conversation with Tsering Yangzom Lama and Dawa Lokyitsang.”
  Yeshe: Journal of Tibetan Arts, Literature and Humanities 3.1 (July 2023).
• “Parody and Pathos: Sexual Transgression by ‘Fake’ Lamas in Tibetan Short Stories,”
  co-authored with Somtso Bhum. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 63 (April 2022).