Naomi Appleton is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions at the University of Edinburgh. Her major research interest is the role of story in the communication and construction of religious ideas in South and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Narrating Karma and Rebirth: Buddhist and Jain Multi-life Stories (2014) and Jātaka Stories in Theravāda Buddhism (2010) as well as a number of articles on related themes. She has also published translations of early Buddhist narrative collections.