WENDY DONIGER Curriculum Vitae - Divinity School - University of ...

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Problems in the History of Religions
2010-2011
Many Ramayanas
The Kamasutra and Ancient Indian Sexuality [MLA]
Second Year Sanskrit: Readings in the Mahabharata
Problems in the History of Religions
Hindu Mythology
Mythologies of Transvestism and Transsexuality
2011-2012
Second Year Sanskrit: Readings in the Mahabharata
Religion, Sex, and Politics in Ancient India: The Kamasutra and the Arthashastra [MLA]
Translation. The Brauer Seminar. With Jeffrey Stackert.
Religion, Sex, and Politics in Ancient India: The Kamasutra and the Arthashastra
Problems in the History of Religions
2012-2013
Second year Sanskrit. Readings in the Mahabharata.
Mahabharata in English Translation.
Against the Gods: Comparative Perspectives on Human Resistance to the Higher
Powers
Problems in the History of Religions
Hinduism: Sources and Contexts.
PH.D. DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED UNDER MY SUPERVISION
(* designates that I served as advisor)
A. In England
*1 Anne-Marie Gaston. "Siva in dance, myth and iconography." Oxford University, M.
Litt., 1975.
* 2 David Dean Shulman. "Tamil mythology: an interpretation of a regional Hindu
tradition." University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976.
* 3 John Edward Mitchiner. "Traditions of the Saptarsi group down to the end of the
Gupta period." University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies,
1976.
B. At Northwestern University and Columbia University
* 4 Herman W. Tull. "Karma and death in the world of the Vedic sacrifice."
Northwestern University, Department of History and Literature of Religion,
1985.
* 5 (co-advisor with John Stratton Hawley) Catherine Benton. "The Mythology of
Kamadeva." Columbia University, Department of Religion, 1991.
C. At the University of Chicago
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