Announcements

Carol Salomon - 1948-2009

It is my very sad duty to report the death this morning, March 13, 2009, of Carol Goldberg Salomon of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington. Carol had been injured severely in a bicycle-automobile collision on March 11. She is survived by her husband, Professor Richard Salomon, also of the University of Washington and their son Jesse. A private funeral service is planned.

Dr. Salomon was a world-renowned specialist in the language, literature, and culture of Bengal. At the time of her death she held the position of Senior Lecturer in Bengali.

Carol Salomon was a wonderful colleague who supported her students and colleagues with intellectual and emotional support. A graduate of City College of New York (1970), she completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Bengali Language and Literature in 1983.

Her special emphasis had been on the cultural synthesis of Bangla culture as represented in the traditions of the Bauls. Among her publications were:

Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature, Language, and Culture, eds. Alan Entwistle and Carol Salomon with Heidi Pauwels and Michael Shapiro. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999.

"The Bauls" in Religions in India in Practice, ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 187-208.

"The Cosmogonic Riddles of Lalan Fakir," in Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions, ed. Arjun Appadurai, Frank Korom, and Margaret Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. 267-304.

At the time of her passing she was working on a "City of Mirrors: An Edition and Annotated Translation of Selected Songs by Lalan Fakir"

The sudden and unexpected loss of this brilliant colleague has left a sense of loss more readily acknowledged than described.

Frank

Frank F. Conlon
Professor Emeritus
University of Washington