Pha(bu)llus : A Cultural History

Dr Alka Pande is a consultant arts advisor and curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. In December 2006, she was awarded the Chevalier dans lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She also received the Charles Wallace Award in 1999-2000.  Dr Pande has completed her post-doctoral studies in critical art theory from Goldsmith College and has a range of books, academic papers and lectures on diverse aspects of the arts to her credit

Johan Mattelaer worked as a urologist in the Department of Urology at AZ
Groeninge till 2003. He is an expert on the history of medicine, urology and
sexology. He has written and edited many books, such as The Phallus in Art and
Culture, From Ornamentation to Mutilation: Genital Decorations and Cultural
Operations in the Male, Forbidden Fruit: Sex, Erotics and Art, and Sexological and
Other Less Logical Stories, to name a few.

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Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck was born in Louvain (B) and followed Greco-Latin
Secondary school. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Louvain,
and trained in general surgery and urology in Belgium, The Netherlands and the
USA. He received a master’s degree in medical sciences from the University of
Antwerp (B), and a PhD in medicine from the Radboud University of Nijmegen
(Nl). Since November 1998, he has been professor of urology at the University
of Maastricht (Nl) and received the Emeritus status on 31 October 2020. He is a
member of twenty-five scientific societies, and has authored over three hundred
and sixty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books, mainly in the field of
urology, but also dealing with anthropologic topics.

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Amrita Narayanan Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private
practice. Amrita read history and French at Middlebury College, Vermont, as
an undergraduate, and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology in 2007,
from the Stanford University Psy.D. consortium, California. Following this,
she trained as a psychoanalyst via the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. Amrita’s
writing has appeared in academic journals such as Psychodynamic Practice and
Psychoanalytic Review; newspapers such as The Hindu and The Indian Express;
and popular press periodicals such as Outlook, Open Magazine, and India Today.
Her most recent work is as editor of The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica
in India (Aleph Book Company, 2018) a collection of poems, short prose and
fiction in translation from Indian languages, linked by an introductory essay on
the central themes in Indian erotic literature.