By
R. N. Simhan
R. N. Simhan (email: rsimhan02@yahoo.com), an independent scholar based in Baltimore, has studied English and Journalism at Northwestern University, Humanities at the University of Chicago, Classics at the University of California, Davis, and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former arts critic for The Sacramento Bee, she is particularly interested in issues of spectatorship in literature and the arts.