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Curriculum Vitae Sally J. Sutherland Goldman CURRICULUM VITAE SALLY J. SUTHERLAND GOLDMAN Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, California 94720 (510) 642-2409 email [email protected] EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Sanskrit. 1979. Ph.D. Graduate Research, Poona University, Poona, India. 1975–76. (Funded through a grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies). California State University, Fullerton, California. 1971. Linguistics. A.B., M.A. EMPLOYMENT University of California at Berkeley. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies: Senior Lecturer 2012– Lecturer 1980–2011 Research Specialist 1995–1997; 2010–2013 Associate Specialist 1991–1995 Acting Instructor 1976–79 Graduate Reader 1973–75 Research Assistant 1973–74 Center for South Asia Studies: Acting Program Coordinator 1989–90 Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Translation Project: Associate Editor 1980– The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Department of Asian Languages and Literatures: Visiting Assistant Professor 1979–80 Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Translation Project: Associate Editor 1980– Visiting Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Winter Term 2010 [Jan–May] [Graduate Course: Epic History and the Indian Nation] Sutherland-Goldman 2 HONORS AND AWARDS: Sarah Kailath Fellow in Indian Studies, 1996–97 American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, 1991–92 BLC Language Travel Grant, 2005 BLC Language Travel Grant, 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Berkeley, 2012 PUBLICATIONS Books Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. Robert Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. Berkeley: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. Berkeley: Institute for South Asia Studies, 4th revised edition, 2019. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume VII, Uttarakāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume VI, Yuddhakāṇḍa: Translation and Annotation Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, and Barend van Nooten. Introduction by Sally J. Sutherland Goldman and Robert P. Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. Rámáyana V: Súndara by Valmíki. Robert P. Goldman and Sally Sutherland Goldman. Clay Sanskrit Library. New York: New York University Press, 2006. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume V, Sundarakāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sally J. Sutherland Goldman and R. P. Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2011. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I, Bālakāṇḍa: Boyhood. Introduction and Translation by R. P. Goldman. Annotation by Robert Goldman and Sally Sutherland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984; Reprint: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2006. Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. Robert Goldman and Sally Sutherland Goldman. Berkeley: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. 1980 (2nd revised edition1986; reprint 1992; 3rd revised edition 1999; 2nd printing with corrections 2002; 3rd printing with corrections 2004). Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. Dissertation Śukrācārya: The Demons’ Priest: Aspects of Character Development in Sanskrit Mythological Literature. Berkeley: University of California, 1979. 2 Sutherland-Goldman 3 Books Edited Bridging Worlds: Studies on Women in South Asia. Edited with Introduction. Berkeley: Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, U. C. Berkeley 1991. Reprint: Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991. (Associate Editor) The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume IV, Kiṣkindhakāṇḍa. Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Rosiland Lefeber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume III, Araṇyakāṇḍa: The Forest. Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume II, Ayodhyākāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. Articles “Revamping the rākṣasa: The Critics and Bhavabhūti’s Mahāvīracarita.” Rivista degli studie orientali, 1–2, 2019, pp. 137–149 [Forthcoming]. “Bodies That Don’t Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of Sulabhā.” In Many Mahabhāratas. Edited by Nell Hawley and Sohini Pillai. SUNY, In Press. “Against their Will: Sexual Assault and the Uttarakāṇḍa.” Studies in History 34.2, 2018, pp. 164–81. “Women at the Margins: Gender and Religious Anxieties in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” JAOS 138.1, 2018, pp. 44–72. “The Monstrous Feminine: Rākṣasīs and Other Others—The Archaic Mother of Bhāsa’s Madhyamavyāyoga.” In Meaning and Mantras: Essays in Honor of Frits Staal. Edited by George Thompson and Richard K. Payne, Berkeley, California: Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America, 2017, pp. 247–74. “A Heroine’s Journey.” In The Rāma Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe. Edited by Forrest McGill. Asian Art Museum Cheng-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2016, pp. 101–115 3 Sutherland-Goldman 4 “Of Daddies and Demons: The Rāmopākhyāna and the Rakṣovaṃśa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” In Argument and Design: The Mahābhārata as Literature. Edited by Vishwa Adluri. Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 161–186 “The Legend of King Nimi and the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” Sanskrit Studies, vol. 4. Edited by Upendra Rao. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2015, pp. 72–105. “Notes from Afar: Early Indian Religious and Narrative Traditions in Western Classical Opera.” In Culture, People and Power: India and Globalized World. Edited by H. Tiwari. Delhi: ICCR and Shipra Publications, 2014, pp. “ ‘When Everything Old is New Again’: Teaching Sanskrit in the New Millennium.” Proceedings of the 52nd World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, 2012. Edited by Chamu Krishna Shastry. New Delhi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, (In Press). “Critical Evidence: Vālmīki’s Uttarakāṇḍa and the Critical Edition.” In The Churning of the Epics and Purāṇas at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 5. Edited by Adam Bowles, Simon Brodbeck, and Alfred Hiltebeitel. New Delhi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 2015, pp. 298–324. “Blessed Events: The Uttarakāṇḍa’s Construction of Sītā’s Pregnancy.” In Beyond the ‘Women Question’: Reconstructing Gendered Identities in Early India. Edited by Kumkum Roy. New Delhi: Pimus Press, Nov. 2014, pp. 71–99. “Sita.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Edited by Alf Hiltebeitel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/ view/document/obo-9780195399318/obo-9780195399318-0086.xml). “Interpretative Histories.” With Robert P. Goldman. Seminar, No. 608, April 2010, pp. 20–31. “Illusory Evidence: The Construction of Māyā in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” In Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honor of R. P. Goldman Edited by Sheldon Pollock. New Delhi: Manorhar, 2010. pp. 209–33. “Nikumbhilā’s Grove: Rākṣasa Rites in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” In Battle, Bards and Brāhmins. Edited by J. L. Brockington. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas. 2012, pp. 255–75. Papers of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference. “Sītā’s War: Gender and Narrative in the Yuddhakāṇḍa of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa,” In Proceedings of the XIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki 2003: Epic Studies. Edited with Muneo Tokunaga. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 2009, pp. 139–168. “Gendered Narratives: Gender, Space, and Narrative Structures in Vālmīki's Bālakāṇḍa.” In The Ramayana Revisited. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 47–85. 4 Sutherland-Goldman 5 “Anklets Away: The Symbolism of Jewelry and Ornamentation in Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa.” In A Varied Optic: Contemporary Studies in the Ramayana. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. Vancouver: Institute of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, 2000, pp.125–153. Reissued as The Ramayana Culture: Text, Performance and Iconography, edited by Mandakranta Bose. Reprint. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2003, pp. “Re-siting Sītā: Gender and Narrative in Vālmīki's Sundarakāṇḍa.” Purāṇa XLV. no. 2, July 2003, pp. 115–135. “Sītā Speaks: The Voice of the Heroine in Sundarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” In Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asia Tradition. Edited by Paula Richman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 223–238; Delhi: OUP, 2001, pp. 223–238. “Speaking Gender: Vāc and the Vedic Construction of the Feminine.” In Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India. Edited by Julia Leslie and Mary McGee. Delhi: OUP, 2000, pp. 57–83. “A Tale of Two Tales: The Episode of Hanumān’s Childhood in the Critical Edition.” Purāṇa, vol. xli, no. 21, 1999, pp. 132–153; JOIB Vo.l XLVIII, nos. 1–4, Sept 1998 & June 1999, pp. 51–57. “Suttee, Satī and Sahagamana: An Epic Misunderstanding?”, Economic and Political Weekly, 29:26, 25 June, 1994, pp. 1595–1605. with Robert. P. Goldman. “Vālmīki’s Hanumān: Characterization and Occluded Divinity.” Rāmāyaṇa. Journal of Vaiṣṇava Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, 1994, pp. 31–54. “Frogs in a Well of Theory.” Review Article with Jeffrey M. Masson. [Seduction and Theory: Reading
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