Enrica Garzilli
garzilli@asiatica.org/
http://www.asiatica.org/
last updated Thursday September 16, 2004
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
1993
Special Teacher, Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Cambridge (MA), USA
Teaching the Advanced Italian course to American teachers of Italian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2005 Apabhraṃśa verses of Abhinavagupta: Critical Edition, Translation, and Linguistic and Semantic Analysis. With Michael Witzel.
Article in preparation.
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.
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