Anne E. Monius ______

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

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

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

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Singing the Lives of Śiva's Saints: History, Aesthetics, and Religious Identity in Tamil- Speaking South India, mss. in preparation Kampaṉ's Irāmāvatāram: War, Book Two. The Murthy Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, under contract, 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:

“And we shall compose a poem to establish these truths: The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures,” Narrative, Philosophy, and Life, ed. Allen Speight. Boston: Boston University, forthcoming “Local Literatures: Tamil,” Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Leiden: Brill, 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 “Inter-tradition Debate in Classical India” and “Inter-tradition Debate in India, 600-1700,” in Sources of Indian Tradition, revised 3rd edition. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming Journal of Religious Ethics: Focus Issue on Moral Anthropology, co-edited with Maria Heim, 42.3 (September 2014) 2

“Afterword I,” in Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste, ed. Chad M. Bauman and Richard Fox Young. New Delhi: Routledge, 2014, 239-245 “'Sanskrit is the Mother of All Tamiḻ Words': Further Thoughts on the Vīracōḻiyam and its Commentary,” Buddhism Among Tamils in Tamilakam and Ilam: Part III: Extensions and Conclusions, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Historia Religionum, 32, 2013, 103-129 “Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamiḻ-Speaking Literary Culture,” in Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity, ed. Monika Horstmann and Heidi R. M. Pauwels. Khoj, vol. 9. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012 “With No One to Bind Action and Agent: The Fate of Buddhists as Religious 'Other' in Tamiḻ Śaiva Literature,” in The Tamiḻs: From the Past to the Present, ed. Peter Schalk, 153-178. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2011 “Ecologies of Human Flourishing: A Case from Pre-Colonial South India,” in Ecologies of Human Flourishing, ed. Donald K. Swearer and Susan Lloyd McGarry. Cambridge: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2011, 39-60 “U. Vē. Cāminātaiyar and the Construction of Tamil Literary ‘Tradition’,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 39/6 (2011):589-597 “Purāṇa / Purānṇam: Modes of Narrative Temporality in Sanskrit and Tamil,” in Passages: Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit, ed. Francois Gros and M. Kannan. Pondicherry: French Institute of Indology; Berkeley: University of California, 2009, 217-236 “Dance Before Doom: Krṣ ṇ ạ in the Non-Hindu Literature of Early Medieval South India,” in Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity, ed. Guy Beck. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005 “Origins of Hindu Ethics,” in A Companion to Religious Ethics, ed. William Schweiker, Blackwell Publishers, 2004, 330-340 “Love, Violence, and the Aesthetics of Disgust: Śaivas and Jains in Medieval South India,” The Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (2004), 113-172 “Śiva as Heroic Father: Theology and Hagiography in Medieval South India,” Harvard Theological Review 92:2 (2004):165-197 “Buddhism in South India,” in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed. Robert Buswell, et al. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003, 369-370 “The Many Lives of Daṇḍin: The Kāvyādarśa in Sanskrit and Tamil.” The International Journal of Hindu Studies 4/2 (April 2000):1-37 “Literary Theory and Moral Vision in Tamil Buddhist Literature,” The Journal of Indian Philosophy 28/2 (April 2000):195-223 “Ētunikaḻcci in Maṇimēkalai: The Manifestation of Beneficial Root 'Causes' and Renunciation,” in A Buddhist Woman's Path to Enlightenment: Proceedings of a Workshop on the Tamil Narrative Maṇimēkalai Uppsala University, May 25-29, 1995, pp. 261-275. Edited by Peter Schalk. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Historica Religionum, vol. 13. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1997 “The Maṇimēkalai's Buddhist Audience,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference-Seminar on Tamil Studies (Madras: International Association of Tamil Research, in press)

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Book Reviews:

Review of David Shulman, More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society 134/2 (2014):311-313 Review of Martha Ann Selby and Indira Viswanathan Peterson, eds., Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India, Journal of the American Oriental Society 131/4 (2011):665-666 Review of Steven P. Hopkins, An Ornament for Jewels: Love Poems for the Lord of Gods by Vedāntadeśika, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society 128/3 (2008):14-15 Review of South-Indian Horizons: Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, ed. Jean-Luc Chevillard and Eva Wilden, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 127/1 (2007):90-91 Review of Steven Paul Hopkins, Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedāntadśika in Their South Indian Tradition, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society 124/4: 20-21 Review of James D. Ryan, trans., Cīvakacintāmaṇi: The Hero, Cīvakaṉ, that Gem that Fulfills All Wishes by Tiruttakkatēvar, in Religious Studies Review 32/3 (2006):207. Review of Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, in Harvard Divinity Bulletin 34/1 (Winter 2006):84-86 Review of Freda Matchett, Kṛṣṇa: Lord or Avatāra? The Relationship between Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, in The International Journal of Hindu Studies 9/1-3 (2005):161-162 Review of Steven Paul Hopkins, Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedāntadeśika in Their South Indian Tradition, in The Journal of Religion 35/1 (January 2005):51-53 Review of Herman Tieken, Kāvya in South India: Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry, in The Journal of Asian Studies 61/4 (November 2002):1404-1406 Review of Alexander M. Dubianski, Ritual and Mythological Sources of Early Tamil Poetry, in The Journal of Asian Studies 61/4 (November 2002):1404-1406 Review of Peter L. Schmitthenner, Telegu Resurgence: C. P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century South India, in The American Historical Review 107/3 (June 2002):866-867 Review of Eivind Kahrs, Indian Semantic Analysis: The 'Nirvacana' Tradition, in The International Journal of Hindu Studies 6/1 (April 2002):89-91 Review of Lance Nelson, ed., Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India, in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69/3 (September 2001):716-719 Review of Ninian Smart, Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs, in The Journal of Religion 79/3 (July 1999):503-505 Review of Richard Davis, Lives of Indian Images, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66/4 (Winter 1998):939-942 Review of Paula Richman, Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre, in The International Journal of Hindu Studies 2/2 (December 1998):299-300. Review of Julia Leslie, ed., Myth and Mythmaking: Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition, in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 10 (1997): 257-261

ACADEMIC/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 4

2014 “Boundaries, Buddhists, and Religious Others,” paper presented at Buddhism’s Boundaries Conference, University of Texas at Austin “Is Bhakti Poetry Properly Literary? The View from Tamiḻ-Speaking South India,” paper presented at the Bhakti Workshop, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School “Theorizing Poetic Emotionin the Tamiḻ Tolkāppiyam,” paper presented at the Workshop on South Asian Constructions of Emotion, Amherst College “From Playmate to Guru: Poetry, Theology, and Practice in Early Tamiḻ Śaiva Siddānta,” paper presented at the European Association for South Asian Studies,” Zurich, Switzerland "Response to Jack Hawley's A Storm of Songs," Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2013 “Linguistic Anxiety and Geographical Aspiration in the Tamiḻ Śaiva Literary World,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore “What Kind of God Rides a Dim-Witted Bull? Varieties of Disputation in Pre- modern South Indian Literature,” Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture on Religion presented at Reed College 2012 “'Sanskrit is the Mother of All Tamiḻ Words': Further Thoughts on the Vīracōḻiyam and its Commentary,” paper delivered at the Conference on Tamiḻ and Southeast Asian Buddhism, Bangkok, Thailand “On the Silence of the Jains: Rethinking the Śaiva-Jain Encounter in Tamiḻ Literature,” paper delivered at the conference, “Monastery, Mosque, and Temple: Jains, Muslims, and Hindus in the Medieval Deccan,” University of Pennsylvania “Medieval Studies and the Study of South Asia,” panel on A Global Middle Ages? Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies “Dandin in Tamil: The Vīracōḻiyam,” Annual Coference on South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison “How Can I Say Anything Now? Continuity, Change, and the Dilemmas of Historical Distance in Early Tamil Śaiva Theology,” Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Religion, Chicago 2011 “From Spidey to Snake-Woman: Karma in the New Indian Comic Book,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco” “With No One to Bind Action and Agent: The Fate of Buddhists as Religious 'Other' in Tamiḻ Śaiva Literature,” annual Numata Lecture in Buddhist Studies delivered at the University of Toronto “The Curious Geography of Tamiḻ Jain Narrative,” paper presented at the Jain Studies Conference, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London “Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamil-speaking Literary Culture,” paper delivered at the Annual Conference on Tamil Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2010 “Ecologies of Human Flourishing: A Case from Pre-Colonial South India,” 5

lecture delivered at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School “Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamil-speaking Literary Culture,” paper presented at the 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn, Germany “Elusive Exemplars and Appealing Anti-Heroes: Demons in Kampaṉ's Iramā vatā ram̄ ,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA 2009 “And we shall compose a poem to establish these truths: The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures,” lecture delivered at Boston University “Kings and Humor in the Cola Court,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago “Prospects for the Study of Jain Literature in Tamil,” Ernst Bender Memorial Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia “On the Very Idea of Maturai, or, When Bad Things Happen in a Good Place,” paper presented at the Annual Conference onTamil Studies, University of California, Berkeley “Pali, Sanskrit, and Tamil Rhyming in the Buddhist Literary World,” paper presented at the Tamil Studies Conference, University of Toronto 2008 “The River Kāviri and Sectarian Commitment in Tamil Literature,” paper presented at the Annual Conference on Tamil Studies, University of California, Berkeley “Humor and Being Human in Medieval Tamil Jain Literature,” paper presented at the Third Annual Tamil Studies Conference, University of Toronto “Beyond the Encyclopedia of Religion: Resources for the Study and Teaching of Hinduism,” presentation to research librarians at the annual ATLA conference, Ottawa 2007 “Purāṇa / Purāṇam: Modes of Narrative Temporality in Sanskrit and Tamil,” paper presented at the Conference on the Interaction of Sanskrit and Tamil, French Institute of Indology, Pondicherry, India“Genes, Seeds, and Karma: Religion and Agribusiness in South Asia,” paper presented at Business Across Religious Traditions lecture series, New York “Aesthetics, Vedic Exegesis, and Moral Formation in the World of the Dhvanyalokā ,” St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico “Emotions, Aesthetics, and the Study of Religion” and “Humor and Salvation? The Aesthetics of Religious Identity in Medieval South India,” Gates Lectures in Religious Studies, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa “What Kind of God Rides a Dim-Witted Bull? Varieties of Disputation in Pre- modern South Indian Literature,” paper presented in the South Asian Studies Lecture Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 2006 “Being a King the Cōḻa Way: Contested Models of Dharmic Kingship in Medieval Tamil Literary Culture?” paper presented at Yale University and University of California, Berkeley “Stripping the Play from Śiva’s Līlā: Attitudes Toward Sensuality Human and Divine in Tamil Śaivism,” paper presented at Yale University “Claiming Tamil and Sanskrit for the Bodhisattva,” paper presented at the annual 6

meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC 2004 “Character and Sectarian Conflict in Twelfth-Century South India,” paper presented at the South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Being a King the Śaiva Way: Love and Violence in Tamil Literary Culture,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego 2002 “Rise Up and Fly!: The Songs of Women and the Play of the Lord in Śaiva Siddhānta Philosophy,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Toronto “Dance Before Doom: Kṛṣṇa in the Non-Hindu Literature of Early Medieval South India,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Boston “Literary Theory and Moral Vision in Tamil Buddhist Literature,” Numata Lecture delivered at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario 1998 “Gathering Up Her Powers: Images of Women in Early Medieval Tamil Literature, “ paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Orlando, Florida “The Maṇimēkalai's Vidyādhara Story: Literary Theory and Moral Vision in a Tamil Buddhist Narrative,” paper presented to the Dharam Hinduja Indic Studies Center, Columbia University “'Base Buddhist Monks' and 'Filthy Jains': The Emergence of Śaiva Bhakti in Tamil-speaking South India,” paper presented at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia 1997 “U. Vē. Cāminātaiyar and the Construction of Tamil Literary Tradition,” paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin 1996 “The 'Great Sage' Present and Absent in Tamil Buddhist Literature,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, New Orleans 1992 “The Art of Buddhist Narrative: Literary Form and Philosophy in a Tamil Buddhist Text,” New England regional meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston University