Anne E. Monius Harvard Divinity School 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 telephone: (617) 495-4486 fax: (617) 384-9404 email:
[email protected] EDUCATION 1997 Ph.D., Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University 1991 A.M., Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University 1987 A.B., summa cum laude, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard- Radcliffe College TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2004 - Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School 2002 – 2004 Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School 1997 – 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. PUBLICATIONS Books: Singing the Lives of Śiva's Saints: History, Aesthetics, and Religious Identity in Tamil- Speaking South India, mss. in preparation, forthcoming. Kampaṉ's Irāmāvatāram: War, Book Two. The Murthy Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming. Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; Indian edition, Delhi: Navayana Press, 2009. Articles: “Local Literatures: Tamil,” Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming. “Religion, Culture, Theory: An Afterword,” in Contesting Indian Christianities, ed. Richard Fox Young and Chad Bauman. London: Routledge, forthcoming. “'Sanskrit is the Mother of All Tamiḻ Words': Further Thoughts on the Vīracōḻiyam and its Commentary,” Buddhism Among Tamils, Part 3, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Historia Religionum, 32, forthcoming. “The Curious Geography of Tamiḻ Jain Narrative,” The International Journal of Jain Studies, forthcoming. “Rethinking Medieval Hindu Literature,” in The Oxford Handbook of Hindu Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. “Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamiḻ-Speaking Literary Culture,” in Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity, ed.