Danielle Chen Kleinman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Yigal Bronner and Prof. Ronit Ricci. Danielle’s research project explores the kakawin genre – a form of court poetry written in Old Javanese – and focuses on its metapoetic and reflexive dimensions. Danielle is also interested in the literary and cultural dialogue the kakawin genre shared with Sanskrit court poetry and studies the multiple ways in which Sanskrit literary models were incorporated into kakawin aesthetics through a process of redefinition and intermixture with local-Javanese aesthetics. Danielle is a member of the ERC research project The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM; P.I: Prof. David Shulman) and a fellow of the Azrieli Fellows Program. In the Textual Microcosms project, Danielle will work on interlinear translations of Sanskrit texts into Old Javanese.