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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades.
Biography. Wendy Doniger’s research interests revolve around two basic areas, Hinduism and mythology. Her work in mythology addresses themes in cross-cultural expanses, such as death, dreams, evil, horses, sex, and women; her work on Hinduism covers a broad spectrum that, in addition to mythology, considers literature, law, gender, and zoology.
Dec 3, 2018 · Wendy Doniger will long be remembered, admired, and loved for a great many things—for the astonishing breadth and range of her scholarship; for her deep knowledge of South Asian languages, history, and culture; for her seemingly boundless and infectious energy; and for her wonderful, often hilarious sense of humor.
Jun 19, 2022 · As one of the world’s foremost scholars of Hinduism, Sanskrit and mythology, Wendy Doniger has also found herself at the centre of contentious debates on the politics of knowledge, the study of religion, the insider-outsider readings of texts and traditions.
Wendy Doniger. Email don8@uchicago.edu. Faculty Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions; also in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College.
Wendy Doniger is a distinguished Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions. Her research and teaching interests revolve around Hinduism and mythology addressing themes such as death, dreams, evil, literature, law, gender and zoology.
Her courses in mythology address themes in cross-cultural expanses, such as death, dreams, evil, horses, sex, and women; her courses in Hinduism cover a broad spectrum that, in addition to mythology, considers literature, law, gender, and zoology. Read more about Professor Doniger here.
Wendy DONIGER | Cited by 709 | of University of Chicago, IL (UC) | Read 122 publications | Contact Wendy DONIGER.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests revolve around two basic areas, Hinduism and mythology.
Apr 7, 2022 · Wendy Doniger. The centrality and vitality of the Ramayana in Indian culture today, its enormous historical importance and continued use in mythological historicizing, can be only roughly approximated in Europe and America by the Bible. April 7, 2022 issue. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
