Enrica Garzilli | |
last updated Thursday September 16, 2004
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Contents | |
Education | |
Academic Work | |
Editorial Work | |
Fellowships for Academic Achievements and Academic Honors | |
Honorary Positions and Memberships to Professional Associations | |
Radio and Television Appearances | |
Selected Lectures and Presentations | |
Selected Bibliography: Books | |
Selected Bibliography: Articles | |
Selected Bibliography: Web Writings | |
Selected Bibliography: Works in Preparation | |
Field Trips | |
Languages | |
Computer Skills | |
Education | |
03/1985 |
Laurea in Lettere. Final grade: Summa (110/110).
University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, Department of Asian Studies, under the guidance of Prof. Raniero Gnoli. Other Professors: Luciano Petech, Mario Bussagli, Paolo Daffinà, Mario Bausani. My dissertation, Lo Spandasaṃdoha di Kśemarāja. Traduzione dall' originale sanscrito del XII sec. d.C., has been published in 1989 by the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Supplement no. 59 to the ANNALI- vol. 49 (1989), fasc. 2. |
06/1987 |
Post-graduate Specialization in Computer Science for Humanistic Sciences.
University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Theoretical course of 1 academic year + 150 hours of hands-on experience. The course included theories and applications for the analysis of texts, and Artificial Intelligence in Lisp and Fortran. Admission to the course was restricted to 30 students, selected with a nationwide written and oral examination among some 1,800 national and international scholars. |
06/1990 |
Post-graduate Specialization in Methodologies for Teaching History to Foreigners.
University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy. |
Academic Work | |
10/2004- |
Appointed Associate Professor,
DIPRI, University of Macerata,
Italy
Teaching yearly courses on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
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03/2000-02/2004 |
Researcher,
DIPRI, University of Macerata,
Italy
Working on an electronic annotated bibliography with textual references of
philological work on sources, studies and translations on Vedas
(see Editorial Work, no. 12).
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1999-2003 |
Co-Researcher,
Sanskrit Dept., Harvard University,
Cambridge (MA), USA
Assisting Dr. Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and
Indian Studies, during summer months researching Apabhramśa and
Śāradā manuscripts (1200-1600 C.E.), and early Vedic texts.
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1996-1999 |
Appointed Associate Professor,
Inst. of Linguistics, University of Perugia,
Italy
Teaching yearly language courses (Sanskrit Beginning and
Sanskrit Intermediate/Advanced), and extra-curriculum
courses (Passage to India: Duty and Love, Yoga and
Liberation, Rites, Myths, Language, Literature, Philosophy and
the Ancient and Modern and Contemporary Social System and
Nepalese Studies). Member of the Discussion Committee for
dissertations on Linguistics.
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1994-1996 |
Visiting Researcher,
Harvard Law School,
Cambridge (MA), USA
Engaged in a research on the connections between Hindu traditional women law and religious fundamentalisms in South Asia.
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1993-1995 |
Lecturer,
Dept. of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University,
Cambridge (MA), USA
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses (Advanced Philosophical Sanskrit, Hindu Tantric Religion and Thought: Kashmir Shivaism).
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1992-1993 |
Senior Fellow,
Center for the Study of World Religions, Divinity School, Harvard University,
Cambridge (MA), USA
Engaged in a research project on social history of Kashmir up to contemporary times.
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1993 |
Special Teacher,
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts,
Cambridge (MA), USA
Teaching the Advanced Italian course to American teachers of Italian.
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1989-1990 |
Research Affiliate,
Sanskrit Dept, PGDAV College, Delhi University,
Delhi, India
Engaged in research and teaching, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Nityanand Sharma.
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1986-1988 |
Research Assistant,
Inst. of Linguistics, University of Perugia,
Italy
Teaching Sanskrit for Prof. Augusto Ancillotti in his Comparative Philology of Indo-European Languages Course.
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1996-1999 |
Teacher,
Libera Università di Santa Cristina,
Italy
Teaching Beginning Sanskrit, Advanced Latin, and
Advanced Italian courses at the private University owned
by the 1999 Nobel Laureate for Literature Dario Fo.
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Editorial Work | |
1995 | Copy editor, Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas, ed. by M. Witzel, Harvard Oriental Series, Cambridge 1997 (Opera Minora vol. 2). |
1995 | Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of South Asia Women Studies (ISSN 1085-7478). The Editorial Board includes academics from institutions such as Emory University (USA), the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts (India), the University of Hamburg (Germany). |
1994-1995 | Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Oriental Series "Opera Minora". |
1994-1995 | Managing Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. |
1995 | Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Tantric Studies (ISSN 1084-7553). The Editorial Board includes academics from institutions such as Harvard University (USA), Saint Xavier University (USA), Tokyo University (Japan), Adelphi Edizioni (Italy). |
1993 | Copy-editor, vol. 50 of the Harvard Oriental Series, Rigveda. A Metrically Restored Text, B. Van Nooten and G. B. Holland eds., Cambridge, Mass., 1994. |
Fellowships for Academic Achievements and Academic Honors | |
1988-1989 | Government post-graduate fellowship for Research under the Inter-cultural Exchange Programme between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indian Ministry of Education. I was sent to Delhi University, where I worked as Research Affiliate in Sanskrit, Sanskrit Department, with Prof. Nityanand Sharma, Sanskrit Professor and President of the PGDAV college. |
1992-1994 | Senior Fellowship. Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. The Center co-sponsored a Lecture Course. |
1996-1998 | Who’s Who of American Women. |
1998-2001 | International Who’s Who 2000 of Outstanding Scholars, International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, The Barons 500 Leaders of the New Century, Marquis Who’s Who. |
Honorary Positions and Memberships to Professional Associations | |
1995- | Harvard Alumna |
1993-1999 | Member of the American Academy of Religions |
1993-1995 | Associate with the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Dept., Harvard University |
1993- | Member of the Association for Asian Studies |
1988- | Honorary life Member of the Dante Alighieri Society in India |
Radio and Television Appearances | |
22/05/2004 | Guest in L’opinione, a Swiss National Radio (RSI) program. |
19/05/2002 | Interviewed by Radio Radicale on South Asias globalisation issues. |
09/05/2002 | Interviewed by the Swiss National Radio (RSI) on the political situation in Nepal. |
15/09/2001 | Interviewed by Radio Radicale on the condition of Afghani Women. |
04/06/2001 | Guest of Honor in Next, a RAI2 International program, as an expert on the socio-political situation in Nepal. |
Selected Lectures and Presentations | |
10/10/2003 | A Sanskrit Letter Written by Sylvain Lévi in 1924 to Hemarāja Śarmā, Râjguru of Nepal. At the "Colloque international Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935). Histoire sociale et érudition orientaliste.", École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des sciences religieuses (EPHE), Maison des sciences de l’homme (MSH), Paris, France. |
01/10/2003 | Gender and Social Inequality - Empowering Women in South Asia. The Case Study of Nepalese Women. Keynote address of the Gender Studies section at the "International Workshop on Gender and Social Change in Nepal", Research Center on Development and International Relations (Aalborg University, Tribhuvan University, Aarohan Theater Group Nepal, Aalborg Theatre), Aalborg University, Denmark. |
19/06/2003 | A Sanskrit Letter Written by Carlo Formichi in 1933 to Hemarāja Śarmā along with Hitherto Unkown Biographical Notes. XII World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, Finland. |
26/05/2002 | Flowers of the Ṛgveda Hymns: The Lotus. 4th International Workshop “Pandanus 2002: Nature in Indian Literatures. Dedicated to Bernard Kölver”, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Indian Studies, Prague, Czech Republic. |
10/2001 | Abhinavagupta's Representation of the Three Worlds. 30th Annual Conference on South, University of Wisconsin-Madison at Madison (USA). |
10/2000 | Modelli recenti di linguistica. XXV Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Linguistics, University of Macerata, Italy. |
27/05/2000 | Flowers of Consciousness in Tantric Texts. 3rd International Workshop “Pandanus 2000: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics through the Eyes of Literary Theory Indian Poetics”, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Indian Studies, Prague, Czech Republic. |
03/04/2000 | Over Thirty Years of Sanskrit Correspondence Between the Rajguru of Nepal Hemraj Sarma, and the major Indologists of the 20th Century. XI World Sanskrit Conference, Turin, Italy. |
12/02/1999 | Over Thirty Years of Sanskrit Correspondence between the Raj Guru of Nepal and the Major Indologists of the 20th Century. Royal Nepal Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
11/1988 | Indian Hindu Woman and Italian Woman: Past and Present Situation and Perspectives according to the Law. Delhi University, Dante Alighieri Society, and Embassy of Italy. |
27/06/1998 | New Languages in the Computer Textual Analysis: Hindu and Buddhist Books. An Example. Seminar of the ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative) held at the 1st International Convention of ICAS, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. |
25/06/1998 | Human Rights, Western Rights, Indian Women’s Rights. 1st International Conference of ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars), Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. |
20/05/1998 | Human Rights in East and West. University of Perugia and UNICEF, Perugia, Italy. |
23/10/1997 | Two Academic Electronic Journals and their Scholarly Role and Diffusion. Conferenza dell’Associazione Nazionale per gli Studi Sanscriti, University of Genova,Italy. |
06/06/1997 | Human Rights, Western Rights, Hindu Women Rights. Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, University of Hamburg, Germany. |
27/05/1997 | The Strīdharma in the Law-books. Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Strasbourg, France. |
01/1997 | Death and Life in Hindu Thought: Karman and Abhinavagupta’s Representation of the Three Worlds. X World Sanskrit Conference, Bangalore, India. |
10/05/1996 | Kashmir in Abhinavagupta's Description of the Cosmos. In the "Himalayan Symposium", Sanskrit & Indian Studies Department and Anthropology Department, Harvard University, USA. |
19/12/1996 | Death and Life in Hindu Thought: Karman and Abhinavagupta's Representation of the three-world. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster (PA), USA. |
21/11/1995 | The International Journal of Tantric Studies and its Academic Contents. The Society of Tantric Studies, American Academy of Religion Meeting at Philadelphia, USA. |
11/04/1995 | The Inherent Nature of Women. How the Hindu Law Books define Women in India. Graduate Students Council, Dudley House Events, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA. |
30/05/1995 | The Custom of Satī: Origins, Greek and Latin Documents, Hindu Law. Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, The University of Leeds, UK. |
04/11/1994 | Change and Continuity of the Vedic dīkṣā in the Tantric Tradition. Panel on "Vedic Studies Today", 23rd Annual Conference on South Asia, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA. |
13/05/1994 | One Birth from the Encounter between Text and Translator, and the Non-other: The Translation of the Spandasaṃdoha of Kṣemarāja. Lecture delivered during the Symposium "Translating, Translations, Translators: From India to the West", that I planned and organized for the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, USA. |
8/05/1993 | Kaśmīr Śivaism and Lakulīśa-Pāśupata, Pratyabhijñā, Kula, Krama and Spanda Schools. Seminar of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Divinity School, Harvard University, USA. |
04/1993 | The Spanda as a distinct school within Kashmir Śivaism. Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. |
10/04/1993 | The Unique Position of the Spanda School among the Other Schools of Kashmir Śivaism. The University of Chicago, USA. |
12/1991 | Women's Rights (Strīdharma) in the Law Books of Kashmir. Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, USA. |
Selected Bibliography: Books | |
1997 | Journal of South Asia Women's Studies: 1995-1997. Milan: Asiatica Association.
Pp. XVIII + 242. Reviewed by Prof. Stacey
Burlet in "Contemporary South Asia", vol. 7, no. 3, November
1998, pp. 355-356; reviewed by Prof. Frank F. Conlon in "H-Net
list for Asian History and Culture"; reviewed by Prof. Frank F.
Conlon in "Intersections; Gender, History and Culture in the
Asian Context", Issue 3, January, 2000; reviewed by Prof. Laurie
Patton in "Religious Studies Review", vol. 26, no. 1, January
2000, p. 118.
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1996 | Translating, Translations, Translators: From India to the West, Volume 1 of Opera Minora.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Oriental Series.
Introduction by the editor: pp. III-XIII.
Contributors: Winand Callewaert, Enrica Garzilli, Teun
Goudriaan, Karel R. van Kooij, Siegfried Lienhard, Dan Martin,
André Padoux, Alessandro Passi, David Pingree, Sheldon Pollock,
Howard Resnick, Debabrata Sensharma, Arvind Sharma, Michael
Witzel.
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1992 | The Bhāvopahāra of Cakrapāṇinātha. A Sanskrit Hymn to Śiva (11th-12th cent.A.D.). With critical edition, Volume 53, fasc. 1, supplement no. 74 of Annali.
Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale.
Reviewed by Prof. Debabrata Sensharma in "Indo-Iranian
Journal", vol. 39, no. 2, April 1996, pp. 168-171.
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1989 | Lo Spandasaṃdoha di Kṣemarāja. Traduzione dall'originale sanscrito del XII sec. d.C., Volume 49, fasc. 2, supplement no. 59 of Annali. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale. |
Selected Bibliography: Articles | |
2004 |
Gender and Social Inequality: Women, Languages, and Cultures in Nepal: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Developments.
In Johannes D. Schmidt (Ed.),
Gender, Theatre and Social Change in Nepal
London/New York:
Longman.
In print.
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2003 | The Flowers of Ṛgveda Hymns: Lotus in V.78.7, X.184.2, X.107.10, VI.16.13, and VII.33.11, VI.61.2, VIII.1.33, X.142.8. Indo-Iranian Journal, 46, 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 293-314. |
2003 | Strage a palazzo, movimento dei Maoisti e crisi di governabilità in Nepal. In Corrado Molteni, Francesco Montessoro, Michelguglielmo Torri (Eds.), Asia Major 2002: l'Asia prima e dopo l'11 settembre, pp. 143-160. Bologna: Il Mulino. |
2001 |
Flowers of Consciousness in Tantric Texts: The Sacred Lotus.
In Jaroslav Vacek, Knotková-Kapková (Eds.),
Pandanus 2000. Flowers, Nature, Semiotics - Kavya and Sangam, pp. 73-102.
Prague:
Signeta.
Reviewed by Siegfried Lienhard in "Indo-Iranian Journal" vol. 45, issue 3, pp. 397-402.
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2001 |
A Sanskrit Letter Written by Sylvain Lévi in 1923 to Hemarāja Śarmā along with Some Hitherto Unknown Biographical Notes (Cultural Nationalism and Internationalism in the First Half of the 21st Cent.: Famous Indologists Write to the Raj Guru of Nepal — no. 1).
In A. Wezler (Ed.), in collaboration with H. Haffner, A. Michaels, B. Kölver, M. R. Pant and D. Jackson (Eds.),
Commemorative Volume for 30 Years of the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project, pp. 115-149.
Kathmandu:
Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, vol. 12.
Quoted by Albrecht Wezler (Uni. of Hamburg) in "Bhikṣu Haribhadra's Vibhaktikārikā. An Unknown Grammatical Text Edited with a Brief Introduction (First Part)", in JNRC, Journal of the Nepal Research Center, p. 243, fn. 3; quoted by Michael Witzel (Harvard U.) in "Medieval Vedic Tradition as Reflected in Nepalese Manuscripts", ivi, p. 259, fn. 31.
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2000 | Brief communication. Indo-Iranian Journal, 43, pp. 197-198. |
1999 | The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the author's Vṛtti. Edited and translated by Raffaele Torella. IsIAO, Rome, 1994. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119, 3. |
1999 | Patañjali's Yoga-sūtra. Contribution to the German encyclopedia "Grosses Werklexikon der Philosophie", Ed. F. Volpi, München: Knaur Verlag, 1995-. |
1999 | Abhinavagupta's Tantrāloka. Contribution to the German encyclopedia "Grosses Werklexikon der Philosophie", Ed. F. Volpi, München: Knaur Verlag, 1995-. |
1998 | Matsyendra Saṃhitā: Ascribed to Matsyendranātha. Part I. Edited by Debabrata Sensharma. The Asiatic Society, Bibliotheca Indica Series no. 138, Calcutta, 1994. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118, 4. |
1997 |
First Greek and Latin Documents on Sahagamana and Some Connected Problems.
Indo-Iranian Journal,
40,
4,
pp. 339-365.
Part 2. Quoted by M. Torri in "Storia dell'India", Roma:Laterza, 2000, p. 125.
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1997 |
First Greek and Latin Documents on Sahagamana and Some Connected Problems.
Indo-Iranian Journal,
40,
3,
pp. 205-243.
Part 1. Quoted by M. Torri in "Storia dell'India", Roma:Laterza, 2000, p. 125.
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1996 | The Unique Position of the Spanda School among the Other Schools of Kaśmīr Śivaism. Journal of the Indological Society of Southern Africa (JISSA), 4, pp. 43-63. |
1996 | Strīdhana: To Have and to Have Not. International Journal of Tantric Studies, 2, 1. |
1996 | One Birth from the Encounter between Text and Translator and the Non-Other: the Translation of the Spandasaṃdoha of Kṣemarāja. In Enrica Garzilli (Ed.), Translating, Translations, Translators: From India to the West, pp. 11-23. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora Vol. 1. |
1990 | The Strīdharma in the Dharmaśāstras: the Difference between Svadharma and Strīdharma and the Strīsvabhāva. Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università degli Studi di Perugia, Volume XXVIII, nuova serie XIV, Sezione Studi Classici, pp. 149-165. |
1989 | Riflessione sulla donna indiana. Il nuovo ruolo delle donne fra tradizione nazionale e modelli di emancipazione occidentali [Some thoughts on Indian women. The new role of Indian Women between National Tradition and Western Patterns of Emancipation]. Sinistra Europea, Nuova Serie, year IV, 3-4, pp. 23-25. |
1987 | Lo strīdharma nei dharmaśāstra. Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università degli Studi di Perugia, XXV, nuova serie XI, Sezione Studi Classici, pp. 11-26. |
Selected Bibliography: Web Writings | |
Editorials, reviews, and papers in the International Journal of Tantric Studies and the Journal of South Asia Women Studies. | |
Selected Bibliography: Works in Preparation | |
2005 | Sanskrit, English and Nepali Letters
between K. Bahadur K. C., V. Bhattacarya, C. Formichi, S. Lévi, S.
Murti, R. Sankrityayan, B. Sharma, G. Tailang, G. Tucci, V.
Suktankar, F. W. Thomas and the Royal Preceptor of Nepal, Hemarāja
Śarmā in 1923 -1953.
Book in preparation, due by 2005.
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2005 | Apabhraṃśa
verses of Abhinavagupta: Critical Edition, Translation, and Linguistic and Semantic Analysis.
With Michael Witzel.
Article in preparation.
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2005 | Gender
and Social Inequality: Women, Languages, and Cultures in Nepal:
Historical Perspective and Contemporary Developments.
In Johannes D. Schmidt (Ed.), Gender, Theatre and Social Change in Nepal
London/New York: Longman.
Article in preparation.
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Field Trips | |
01/2002-03/2002 | I was in Nepal in order to collect primary sources and documents from the Kathmandu Valley, the Terai, and the Himalayan border for the completion of my latest books (see Works in Preparation). I also interviewed Lepcha and Tibetan-Burma ethnic groups. |
01/2000-02/2000 | I was in Delhi at the India International Center to attend a conference, and I also worked at the National Archives. I was then in Nepal to collect documents on Nepalese medieval history. I also worked at the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project and was a guest of the Nepal Research Center. |
01/1999-02/1999 | I was in Nepal to collect primary sources on modern and contemporary history (from the Shah conquer of Gorkha in 1559) of the Royal family, the Rajguru family and the Ranas. The documents are kept by a Rana “B class” family and are in modern Sanskrit and in Nepali. |
01/1997 | I was in Bangalore to take part to the X World Sanskrit Conference and then I made research in the National Archives in Delhi, and in private libraries in Gujrat for study on the Apabhraṃśa verses of Abhinavagupta (see Works in Preparation). |
1989-1996 | I was several times in India for a total stay of 1 year to search for MSS and books, and I was for 2 months in Benares to interview one of the gurus of the Kashmir Shaiva school who resides there. |
1988-1990 | I spent 11 months in Delhi, India first as a Research Affiliate in Sanskrit at the Delhi University, later as an Associate to the Sanskrit Dept, PGDAV College, Delhi University, where I worked as Assistant for Prof. Dr. Nityanand Sharma. |
Languages | |
English | |
French | |
German (reading comprehension) | |
Hindi (reading comprehension) | |
Italian (mother tongue) | |
Nepali (reading comprehension) | |
Spanish (reading comprehension) | |
Ancient Greek | |
Apabhramśa | |
Latin | |
Pali | |
Sanskrit | |
Computer Skills | |
Operating Systems | MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS |
Office Applications | Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel) |
Internet Applications | Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Outlook, Pine, Links, Lynx |
Markup Languages | Working knowledge of HTML and XML |