Faculty Webpage Jamal Jones Biography Jamal Jones works on the literary history of premodern south India, with a focus on poetry in Sanskrit and Telugu. He is particularly interested in how poetic practices intersect with the fields of religion and politics. Two projects in progress consider this area. The first is a book tentatively titled …
Faculty Webpage J. Mark Kenoyer Biography Dr. Kenoyer’s research interests include the archaeology of early urbanism and state level society, ancient technology, ornaments, textiles, pottery, lithics and metallurgy. He also is involved in ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and a wide range of archaeometric techniques and quantitative methods. His geographic areas of interest include South Asia (particularly …
Faculty Webpage Jampa Khedup Biography Jampa Khedup is a senior lecturer at the UW-Madison and teaching Modern Tibetan since September 2005 at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia. Jampa was born in Mysore, South India after his parents fled Tibet in 1959. He was raised as a Buddhist and a the age of …
Faculty Webpage Christopher Livanos Biography My academic research concentrates on literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, emphasizing interactions between European and non-European cultures. I am currently studying the theme of Spain’s Muslim legacy as a haunting, repressed cultural presence in Cervantes’ Don Quijote. In another project, I am studying the reception of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in …
Biography Arun Luthra is one of New York’s premier saxophonists, an award-winning composer, and an exponent of konnakol–the Carnatic (South Indian classical) music art form of vocalizing rhythms. As the leader of his Konnakol Jazz Project, he is one of the small group of American musicians of South Asian heritage who have continued to explore the …
Biography Jeremy studies Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, with a particular focus on how metaphysical and epistemological questions intersect with religious and ethical practices. In addition to writing, editing, and translating, he teaches in the UW-Madison Philosophy Department. Jeremy is an editor with 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, a nonprofit dedicated to making …
Faculty Webpage B. Venkat Mani Biography I received my BA (Honors) (1993) and MA (1995) in German Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University (2001). In addition, I attended the University of Vienna, Bogazici University in Istanbul, and the Freie Universität, Berlin. I teach undergraduate and …
Biography My responsibilities at the libraries are twofold: I am the subject specialist for South Asia and Scandinavian Humanities in the International and Area Studies Unit, and I am the ADA Accessibility Liaison for the Library System, where I work with various departments and stakeholders at the libraries and throughout the university to provide equitable …
Faculty Webpage Darshana Sreedhar Mini Biography Darshana Mini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Arts. Her teaching and research lie at the intersection of feminist media, gender & sexuality studies, transnational media, migrant media and screen cultures of South Asia. Supported by Social Science Research Council (SSRC), NEH and American Institute of …
Faculty Webpage Fatemeh Mirsharifi Biography Fatemeh Mirsharifi received her PhD in Second Language Acquisition with an emphasis on Less Commonly Taught Languages from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the past, she has taught Persian at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Moreover, she has collaborated on projects with the Center for Advanced …