Professor Hatcher teaches courses on Asian religious literature and practice, the Hindu religious tradition, Buddhism in India and Tibet, Hindu-Christian encounter, and the interpretation of religious experience.

Professor Hatcher holds graduate degrees from Yale University (M.Div.) and Harvard University (M.A. and Ph.D.). He is the author of Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 1996), Eclecticism and Modern Hindu Discourse (Oxford University Press, 1999), and Bourgeois Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists (Oxford University Press, 2008). His other publications include studies of Sanskrit pandits in colonial Bengal, issues in the historiography of modern Bengal, and selected topics in the development of modern Hinduism. In addition, he has published a variety of translations from Sanskrit and Bengali, including several short stories by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay.

Professor Hatcher's on-going research addresses such issues as the transformation of intellectual practice among Sanskrit pandits in colonial Bengal, the interrogation of modernity under the conditions of colonialism, and the expression of religious change in emergent Hindu movements.

 Professor Hatcher's publications and presentations.