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

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"Wendy Doniger [] is undoubtedly the most powerful person in academic Hinduism
Studies today. She is a former President of the American Academy of Religion,
now leads Religious Studies at the University of Chicago, chairs many academic
and powerful bodies, has two PhDs (from Harvard and Oxford) and is a prolific
author. She was also a past President of the very influential Association of Asian
Studies.
"The most important leverage she has is that she has given more students their
PhDs in Hinduism than any other person in the world and has successfully
placed these former students in high-leverage academic jobs throughout the
Western world, to carry the torch of her theories and principles of researching
Hinduism. There is no place one can go to in this academic discipline without
running into the effect of her influence, often present in a very invisible and
subtle fashion, through her large cult of students, who glorify her in exchange for
her mentorship."
Quoted by Michael Ondaatje in Divisadero, p. 152 of first edition.
Quoted (a passage from the Introduction of Hindu Myths) by Neil Geiman in American
Gods, p. 155, epigram at the start of Chapter 7.
Quoted by Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times, pp. 16-19.
REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY WENDY DONIGER O'FLAHERTY
Reviews of Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva
Edmund Leach, Times Literarary Supplement, January 18, 1974, 58.
Raymond Allchin, British Book News, May 1974, 304.
Unsigned, Haaretz (Jerusalem), July 26, 1974.
Heinrich von Steitencron, South Asian Review 8:1 (October 1974) 55-60.
Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf, Man 9:2 (June 1974) 342-3.
Bardwell L. Smith, Choice, April 1974.
J. Bruce Long, Journal of Asian Studies 34:4 (May 1975) 807-13.
Richard F. Gombrich, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1975:1, 76-78.
Ivo Fiser, Acta Orientalia 36 (1975) 512-16.
Madeleine Biardeau, L'Homme 15:1 (Janv.-Mars 1975) 119-21.
Paul G. Hiebert, Journal of Asian and African Studies 10:3-4 (1975) 222-23.
W. Richard Comstock, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, September 1975,
616.
K. Guru Dutt, The Aryan Path (Bombay) Sept.- Oct. 1975, 228-29.
John R. Marr, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39:3 (1975).
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