Sugopi is a teaching fellow. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include South Asian history, and Sanskrit and Bengali literature. Sugopi received a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School, specializing in Asian Religions. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at Boise State University. Being familiar with Sanskrit and its use in lived Hindu contexts since early childhood, Sugopi developed a love for the language that she carried into her academic study. Throughout her educational sojourn at Yale, she has taken classes on various Sanskrit poetic and philosophical works such as Kalidāsa's Kumāra-Sambhava, Vedānta Deśika's Saṁkalpa-sūryodaya, and Śankara's Bhagavad-gitā-bhāṣya. She’s inspired to deepen her engagement with Sanskrit by teaching the language at the Institute for Vaishnava Studies.