Dr. Steven Collins

Steven Collins (PhD, Greek and Latin Literature and Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford) is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfless Persons: imagery and thought in Theravada Buddhism (Cambridge, 1982), Nirvana and other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali imaginaire (Cambridge, 1998), and Nirvana: concept, imagery, narrative (Cambridge, 2010) and the editor of The...See more

Steven Collins (PhD, Greek and Latin Literature and Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford) is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfless Persons: imagery and thought in Theravada Buddhism (Cambridge, 1982), Nirvana and other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali imaginaire (Cambridge, 1998), and Nirvana: concept, imagery, narrative (Cambridge, 2010) and the editor of The Vessantara J taka (Columbia, 2016). I chose him as a reader for his knowledge of the social and cultural history of Buddhism in premodern and modern Southeast Asia and Pali language and literature. See less