Loriliai Biernacki

Loriliai Biernacki is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests include Hinduism, gender, and the interface between religion and science. Her first book, Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra, won the Kayden Award in 2008. She is coeditor of Panentheism across the World’s Religious Traditions (2013), and is currently working on a study of the 11th-century Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta within the framework of wonder, the New Materialisms, and conceptions of the body-mind interface.