Anne E. Monius Harvard Divinity School 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 495-4486 Fax: (617) 384-9404 Email: Anne [email protected]

Anne E. Monius Harvard Divinity School 45 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 495-4486 Fax: (617) 384-9404 Email: Anne Monius@Harvard.Edu

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. Monika Horstmann and Heidi R. M. Pauwels. Khoj, vol. 9. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 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. “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 Schallk. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2011,153-177. “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 / Purāṇam: 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 ̣a 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. .

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