Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi is one of the senior-most professors of Sanskrit in the country. He has served as Vice-Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Deemed University) at Delhi for five years (2008-13), as Vice Chancellor on additional charge at Shri Lal Bahadur Shasri Sanskrit Vidyapeeth for six months and as Vice Chancellor in charge of Dr. H.S. Gour University on a number of occasions. He worked as Visiting Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok for three years. He retired as Professor from Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar (M.P., India) as Professor in February, 2014. He has worked as Fellow in Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla for one year (2014-15) and has also occupied the Karnatak Chair of Orientology at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune for two years (2019-21). He also served as Visiting Professor at National Law University of Maharashtra during 2021-22. Presently he holds the prestigious post of National Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi. 

Widely acclaimed for his original contributions to the study of Nāṭyaśāstra and Sāhityaśāstra, Prof. Tripathi has published 175 books, 278 research papers and critical essays as well as translations of more than 30 Sanskrit plays and some classics from Sanskrit into Hindi. He has received 37 national and international awards and honours for his scholarly contributions as well as creative writings in Sanskrit and Hindi. These include the Sahitya Akademi Award for original poetry in Sanskrit, Shankar Puraskar for Best Philosophical writing, UGC Veda-Vyas Samman, Ramkrishna Sanskriti Samman from Canada and Shikhar Samman of the Govt. of M.P.          

Radhavallabh Tripathi is a well-known poet, short-story writer and playwright of Sanskrit and Hindi. He has 27 books of original writings in Sanskrit to his credit, including six collections of poems, two plays, three novels and some collections of one act plays as well as short stories. 

Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi specializes in Nāṭyaśāstra and Sāhityaśāstra,. His publications in these areas include – Nāṭyaśāstraviśvakośa (an Enclopaedic Distionary of Nāṭyaśāstra), Nāṭyalalitakalāsaṁgraha (an Anthology of Texts on Performing and Plastic Arts), Lectures on Nāṭyaśāstra,  Aspects of Nāṭyaśāstra, Bhāratīya Sāhityaśāstra kī Ācāryaparamparā, Nayā Sāhitya Nayā Sahityaśāstra etc. 

He has visited various institutions at UK, USA, Germany, Holland, Vienna, Nepal, Bhutan, Russia, Iran etc. for delivering lectures/ Key-note addresses/ presentations in Conferences or delivering lectures under cultural/academic exchange programmes. 

He has been referred in various research journals on Indology. Research for Ph.D. has been completed as well as is being carried on his creative writings in Sanskrit in a number of Universities. Four Journals brought out special numbers on his literary contributions. Seven books comprising studies on his creative and critical writings by other authors have been published.