Lauran Hartley is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and an Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She also teaches regularly as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and has taught courses on Tibetan literature and religion at Indiana and Rutgers universities. In addition to co-editing the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008) and serving as Inner Asian Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, she has also published several literary translations and articles on Tibetan intellectual history. Previously, from 2007 to October 2021, Dr. Hartley served as Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. Her research interests are in literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present, as well as contemporary Tibetan cultural production. Lauran currently serves as co-president of the board of directors for the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, and from 2019-2022 was appointed to the advisory board of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.