Born and raised in the state of Bihar, Rakesh Ranjan received his M.A and Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Delhi. He started his career teaching Hindi as the Program Director of the Hindi Language Program at the American Institute of Indian Studies in India, Varanasi in 1993. Dr. Ranjan worked as Resident Director of the University of Virginia- Emory University Semester in India Program in Jodhpur, 1998 and joined the Asian Studies Program at Emory University as Lecturer in Hindi in 1999. He is currently serving as the language coordinator of the Hindi program, and has also developed and directed the Hindi Summer Program for CIPA in the summer of 2000 and 2001. Dr. Ranjan’s research interests are in teaching pedagogy, Hindi linguistics, sociolinguistics and koineization. He is currently working on an Intermediate Hindi Reader and a Hindi Grammar and developing multimedia materials for the teaching of Hindi.

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