Curriculum Vitae: JOEL P. BRERETON

ADDRESS/TELEPHONE

Department of Asian Studies 120 Inner Campus Drive, G9300 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1251 (512) 475-6024 e-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1975 M.Phil., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1973 B.A., Religion, Kenyon College, 1970

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

The University of Texas at Austin

Acting Chair, Department of Asian Studies, Spring 2014 Chair, Department of Asian Studies, 2007–11 Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 2007– Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, 2001–

The University of Missouri-Columbia

Chair, Department of Religious Studies, 1987–90, 1995–98 Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 1984–2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 1982–84

Barnard College, Columbia University

Acting Chair, Barnard College, Department of Religion, 1978–80 Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Department of Religion, 1975–82

PUBLICATIONS

Books: 2

Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, translators. The . The Earliest Religious Poetry of . 3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 1680 pp. (peer-reviewed)

The gvedic Ādityas. American Oriental Society, Vol. 63. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1981.

Co-Edited Journal Issue:

Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison, editors. Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. Journal of the American Oriental Society Special Issue 122, 2. 2002.

Co-Edited Book:

Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison, editors, Sense and Syntax in Vedic. Panels of the VIIth World Conference, Vol. IV. Leiden: Brill. 1991.

Edited Book in press:

The in Indian Culture and History: Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop, Austin, Texas, May 2007. London: Anthem Press. (peer-reviewed). 504 pp. In Press, expected 2015.

Co-Edited Book in press:

Joel P. Brereton and Theodore Proferes, editors. Creating the Veda, Living the Veda: Selected Papers from the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2006. xi + 188 pp. ms. Forthcoming, expected 2015.

Articles:

“Atirātra,” to appear in Jan E.M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru, and Michael Witzel, editors. Vedic Śākhās: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 2011. 12 pp. Forthcoming.

“The Funeral Hymn of Bhaduktha,” to appear in The Vedas in Indian Culture and History. 13 pp. Forthcoming.

“The Early Evolution of the Puróhita,” to appear in Creating the Veda, Living the Veda. 15 pp. ms. Forthcoming.

“Reconstructing gvedic Religion: Devas, Asuras, and Rites of Kingship,” to appear in Asko Parpola, Masato Fujii, and Stanley Insler, editors, Vedic Investigations: Papers of the 3

12th World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, vol. 1. 24 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Expected 2015.

“The Births of the Gods and the Kindling of Fire in gveda 10.72,” to appear in Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, and Michael Weiss, editors. Festschrift for Stephanie W. Jamison [no current working title]. 14 pp. ms. Ann Arbor, MI: Beech Stave Press. Expected 2015.

“The gvedic Ghoṣā Hymns and the Atirātra,” in Billie Jean Collins and Piotr Michalowski, editors. Beyond Hatti: A Tribute to Gary Beckman, 45–61. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press. 2013. (invited)

“Gods’ Work: The bhus in the gveda,” in L. Kulikov and M. Rusanov, editors. Indologica. T. Ya. Elizarenkova Memorial Volume, Book 2, 111–34. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities. 2012. (invited)

“On the Particle hí in the gveda,” in François Voegeli, Vincent Eltschinger, Danielle Feller et al., editors. Devadattīyam. Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume, 323–40. Bern: Peter Lang. 2012. (invited)

“The Composition of the Maitreyī Dialogue in the Bhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 126: 323–46. 2006. (peer-reviewed)

“Bráhman and Brahmán,” in Arlo Griffiths & Jan E. M. Houben, edd., The Vedas: Texts, Language & Ritual. Proceedings of the Third International Vedic Workshop, Leiden, 2002, 325–44. Groningen: Egbert Forsten. 2004. (invited)

“Dhárman in the gveda,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 32: 449-489. 2004. (invited). Reprinted in: Patrick Olivelle, ed., Dharma: Studies in its Semantic, Cultural and Religious History, 27-67. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 2009.

“On the Composition of the New and Full Moon Rites,” in Maitreyee Deshpande, editor. Problems in Vedic and [Festschrift G. U. Thite], 55–78. Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corp. 2004. (invited)

“The Race of Mudgala and Mudgalānī” in Joel Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison, editors. Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 224–34. 2002.

“Edifying Puzzlement: gveda 10.129 and the Uses of Enigma” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119: 248–60. 1999. (peer-reviewed) 4

“'Why is a Sleeping Dog like the Vedic Sacrifice?': The Structure of an Upaniṣadic Brahmodya” in Michael Witzel, ed., Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts: New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas, pp. 1–14. Harvard Oriental Series Opera Minora vol. 2. Cambridge: Press. 1997.

“Yājñavalkya’s Curse,” Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 20: 47–57. [Festschrift ]. 1996. (invited)

“Cosmographic Images in the Bhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,” Indo-Iranian Journal 34: 1–17. 1991. (peer-reviewed)

“Response” to J.-M. Verpoorten, “Iti dans le Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa et dans le Śābara-Bhāṣya,” in Brereton and Jamison, editors. Sense and Syntax in Vedic. Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, 93–100. Leiden: Brill. 1991.

“The Upanishads,” in William Theodore deBary and Irene Bloom, editors. Approaches to the Asian Classics, 115–135. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. (invited)

“Unsounded Speech: Problems in the Interpretation of BU(M) 1.5.10 = BU(K) 1.5.3,” Indo- Iranian Journal 31: 1–10. 1988. (peer-reviewed)

“Tat tvam asi in Context,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 136, 1: 98–109. 1986. (peer-reviewed)

“Style and Purpose in gveda 2.11,” Indo-Iranian Journal 28: 237–62. 1985. (peer-reviewed)

“The Particle iva in Vedic Prose,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 102: 443–50. 1982. (peer-reviewed)