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1- UNIVERSITY of IOWA Asian & Slavic Languages and Literatures 1- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Asian & Slavic Languages and Literatures eHindi SOAS:2101 First-Year Hindi-Urdu: First Semester, 5 s.h. Reading, writing, speaking. Offered fall semesters of odd years. GE: Foreign Language (NEW GE: World Languages); First Level Proficiency. SOAS:2102 First-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester, 5 s.h. Continuation of SOAS:2101. Offered spring semesters of even years. Prerequisites: SOAS:2101. Requirements: undergraduate standing. GE: Foreign Language (NEW GE: World Languages); Second Level Proficiency. SOAS:3101 Second-Year Hindi-Urdu: First Semester, 4 s.h. Conversation, reading of folktales and modern short stories. Offered fall semesters of even years. Prerequisites: SOAS:2102. Requirements: undergraduate standing. GE: Foreign Language (NEW GE: World Languages); Second Level Proficiency. SOAS:3102 Second-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester, 4 s.h. Continuation of SOAS:3101. Offered spring semesters of odd years. Prerequisites: SOAS:3101. Requirements: undergraduate standing. GE: Foreign Language (NEW GE: World Languages); Fourth Level Proficiency. SOAS:4101 Third-Year Hindi-Urdu: First Semester, 3 s.h. Advanced level Hindi texts; speaking, writing. Offered fall semesters. Prerequisites: SOAS:3102. SOAS:4102 Third-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester, 3 s.h. Continuation of SOAS:4101. Offered spring semesters. Prerequisite: SOAS:4101. 1 Asian & Slavic Languages and Literatures College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Chair Russell Ganim Locati 111A PH (Phillips Hall) on Phone 319-335-2151 Email [email protected] Websi http://clas.uiowa.edu/dwllc/asll/ te Gener al http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/registrar/catalog/liberalartsandsciences/asianandslaviclangu Catalo agesandliteratures/ g 6 courses found, displaying all courses. Course # Title SOAS:2102:0001 Course Title is also known as(039:124:001) First-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester Prerequisites: SOAS:2101 (039:123). more Start and end times:10:30A - 11:20A MTWThF 102 SL Instructors: Rajiv Ranjan (Primary Instructor), Philip Lutgendorf (Course Supervisor) SOAS:2902:0001 Course Title is also known as(039:111:001) First-Year Sanskrit: Second Semester Prerequisites: SOAS:2901 (039:110). more 2 Arranged Time Arranged Location Instructors: Frederick Smith (Primary Instructor) SOAS:3102:0002 Course Title is also known as(039:127:002) Second-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester Prerequisites: SOAS:3101 (039:126). more Start and end times:3:30P - 5:20P TTh 161 VAN Instructors: Philip Lutgendorf (Primary Instructor) SOAS:4102:0001 Course Title is also known as(039:185:001) Third-Year Hindi-Urdu: Second Semester Prerequisites: SOAS:4101 (039:184). Arranged Time Arranged Location Instructors: Philip Lutgendorf (Primary Instructor) SOAS:4103:0IND Course Title is also known as(039:217:IND) Individual Hindi for Advanced Students Independent Study Arranged Time Arranged Location View instructors (1 available) SOAS:5201:0IND Course Title is also known as(039:216:IND) Indiv Sanskrit for Advanced Students Independent Study This course has specific requirements view Arranged Time Arranged Location View instructors (2 available) 6 courses found, displaying all courses. Iowa Student Information System 3 Hindi: The University of Iowa View requirements for the Hindi track of the Asian Languages & Literatures major. Intensive summer instruction in Hindi is available through the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; see http://sasli.wisc.edu/. We strongly encourage students to seek study abroad opportunities to accelerate the process of language acquisition and cultural study. The University offers a Semester in South India in Mysore. The University’s membership in the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) makes additional opportunities for study abroad available to students. For more information on these opportunities and on scholarships available to support study abroad, visit theInternational Programs website or contact Study Abroad (335-0353), 1111 University Capitol Centre Faculty South Asian Name E-mail Phone Office Aniruddha Dutta [email protected] 319-335-0035 401 JB Assistant Professor Philip A. Lutgendorf philip- 319-335-2157 667 PH [email protected] Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies Frederick M. Smith 318 [email protected] 319-335-2178 Professor of Sanskrit and Classical Indian GILH Literature OTIC E: The State University of Iowa Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization soliciting tax-deductible private contributions for the benefit of 4 Aniruddha Dutta Assistant Professor [email protected] Phone: 319-335-0035 Office: 401 JB Office Hours: 11:00 - 1:00 T12:00 - 1:00 Th http://clas.uiowa.edu/gwss/people/aniruddha-dutta Philip A. Lutgendorf Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies [email protected] Phone: 319-335-2157 Office: 667 PH Office Hours: 12:00 - 3:00 T Education: Ph.D., 1987, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, with distinction. Dissertation: "The Life of a Text: Tulsidas' Ramcaritmanas in Performance" Courses Developed and Taught: First, Second, and Third Year Hindi Individual Hindi for Advanced Students Readings in the Ramcaritmanas Alternative Universes (Hindu Mythology) Asian Humanities: India 5 Indian Mystical Literature in Translation Indian Theatre The Ramayana as Literature, Performance, and Ideology The Mahabharata as Literature, Performance, and Ideology Topics in Asian Cinema: Indian Film [visit website, "Philip's Fil-ums"] Goddesses in India Publications: 2007 Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005 "Monkeys." In Lindsay Jones (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, vol. 9 pp. 6150-53. Detroit: Thomson Gale (Macmillan Reference USA). 2005 "Who Wants to be a Goddess? Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited." Chakra (journal of Indian religions, Lund University, Sweden) 3, 72-112 (revised reprint of "A Superhit Goddess," 2002). 2004 "Hanuman's Adventures Underground: The Narrative Logic of a Ramayana 'Interpolation'." In Mandakranta Bose (ed.) The Ramayana Revisited. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 149-63. 2004 "(Too?) Many Ramayanas." Journal of Vaisnava Studies, 12.2, 201-211. 2003 "Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited: On Seeing a Hindu 'Mythological' Film." In S. Brent Plate (ed.), Representing Religion in World Cinema: Mythmaking, Culture Making, Filmmaking . New York : Palgrave/St Martins . Pp. 19-42. 2003 "Five Heads and No Tale: Hanuman and the Popularization of Tantra." In International Journal of Hindu Studies 5, 3:269-296 (dated 2001, but copyright 2003) 2003 Entries on "Hanuman" (280-81). "Manas katha" (375-76), "Rama" (508), "Ramayana, T.V. Production" (511-512), and "Vyas" (631-32), in Peter J. Claus and Margaret A. Mills (eds.), South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Routledge. 2003 "Medieval Devotional Traditions: An Annotated Survey of Recent Scholarship," in Arvind Sharma (ed.), The Study of Hinduism. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. Pp. 200-260. 2002 "A Superhit Goddess/A Made-to-Satisfaction Goddess: Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited." Manushi, a Journal About Women and Society, 131:10-16, 24-37. 6 2002 "Evolving a Monkey: Hanuman, Poster Art, and Postcolonial Anxiety." In Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 36:1,2. Pp. 71-112. Also published in Sumathi Ramaswamy, ed., Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. New Delhi: Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications (2003). Pp. 71-112. 2001. "From the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, Book Five: Sundar Kand." (Reprint of 1994 translation, with new introduction.) Indian Literature, vol. XLV, no. 3: 143-181. 2000 "Tulsidas." Article in Olive Classe (ed.), Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, 2 vols. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, vol. 2:1428-29. 2000. "City, Forest, and Cosmos: Ecological Perspectives from the Sanskrit Epics," in Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker (eds.), Hinduism and Ecology. Harvard University Press. 2000. "Dining Out at Lake Pampa: The Shabari Episode in Multiple Ramayanas," in Paula Richman (ed.), Questioning Ramayanas. Oxford University Press. 1999. "Like Mother, Like Son: Sita and Hanuman." Manushi: a Journal about Women and Society, No. 114, 22-35. 1997. "Monkey in the Middle: the Status of Hanuman in Popular Hinduism." Religion, 27, 311-332. 1997. "Imagining Ayodhya: Utopia and its Shadows in a Hindu Landscape." International Journal of Hindu Studies, 1:1, 19-54. 1997. Ramcaritmanas Word Index/Manas shabda anukramanika. by Winand M. Callewaert and Philip Lutgendorf, Delhi: Manohar. 336 pp. (a concordance to the Hindi epic). 1996. "Ramcaritmanas." In Ian P. McGreal (ed.), Great Literature of the Eastern World, 235-38. New York: Harper Collins. 1995. "All in the (Raghu) Family." In Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley (eds.), Media and the Transformation of Religions in South Asia, 217-53. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; and in Robert C. Allen (ed.), To Be Continued....Soap Operas Around the World, 321-53. London: Routledge. (revised version of 1990 "Ramayan: The Video") 1995. "Interpreting Ramraj: Reflections on the Ramayan, Bhakti, and Hindu Nationalism," in David Lorenzen (ed.), Bhakti Religion in North India: Community Identity and Political Action, 253-87. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995. "Ramcaritmanas: From Book Five. The Beautiful Book." (translation). In Maynard Mack (gen. ed.), The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. (Expanded Edition),
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