Charles Hallisey
Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at Harvard University

Areas of expertise
- - Religious Studies
- - Theravada Buddhism
- - Pali language and literature
- - Buddhist ethics
- - Literature in Buddhist culture
Major works
- Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women (Harvard University Press, 2015).
- Currently working on a book project entitled “Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka