Dr. Keith Edward Cantú is a postdoctoral fellow in Asian Religious Traditions at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. As a budding historian of religions, his interdisciplinary research especially focuses on South Asian yoga, Tantra, the interface between Sanskrit and Indic vernacular languages, especially Bengali and Tamil, and on the connected histories of yoga in global esoteric currents. Prior to Harvard, he was Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at St. Lawrence University.

Keith is the author of Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga, published by Oxford University Press. He has also co-edited a volume of Baul songs and translations, published in 2017 as City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sā̃i, and has authored numerous other articles and chapters on yoga and esotericism-related topics. Current projects include a forthcoming monograph on Baul songs and also reprinting and translating the collected works of Sri Sabhapati Swami. 

Keith has extensively researched and directly engaged Baul Fakiri, Tamil Śaiva, and other tantric and musical currents over the course of his twelve years of fieldwork in and writing on India and Bangladesh. He regularly teaches and shares his research and music at Esalen Institute and online at Yogic Studies.