Assistant
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1999
Field Specialties:
Sanskrit Literature and
Literary Theory
Photo: Yigal Bronner (bottom right) visits Appayya Dikshita
(top right) in his home village of Adayapalam.
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Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist trained at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of
Chicago, where he obtained his PhD in 1999. Before
joining SALC in 2005 he taught for six years at the Tel
Aviv University. In the past decade Bronner has taught
courses in all levels of Sanskrit as well as a variety
of seminars on the literary and intellectual history of
South Asia. He is currently also teaching in the
“Readings in World Literature” core sequence
at the College.
Research Interests:
Sanskrit literature and literary history,
Sanskrit poetics and its intellectual history, regional
Sanskrit literatures
Publications Include:
2008. (with Gary Tubb) “Blaming the Messenger:
A Controversy in Late Sanskrit Poetics and Its
Implications.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental
and African Studies 71.1: 75-91.
2007. “Singing to God, Educating the People:
Appayya Diksita and the Function of Stotras.”
Journal of the American Oriental Society 127.2:
113-130.
2006. (with David Shulman) “A Cloud Turned
Goose: Sanskrit in the Vernacular Millennium.”
The Indian Economic and Social History Review,
43.1.
2004. “Back to the Future: Appayya Diksita's
Kuvalayananda and the Rewriting of Sanskrit
Poetics.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die
Kunde Sudasiens, 48: 47-79.
2002. “What is New and What is Navya: Sanskrit
Poetics on the Eve of Colonialism.” Journal of
Indian Philosophy, 29.4, 435-464.
Projects underway include:
Bronner is completing a monograph on the
history of Sanskrit bitextual poetry. He is also
working on a volume of translations from Sanskrit works
written in South India, together with David Shulman,
which is to appear in the Clay Sanskrit Library.
Together with David Shulman and Gary Tubb, Bronner is
editing two volumes of essays on the history of Sanskrit
literature. He is also a member in the NEH and NSF
supported project “Sanskrit Systems of Knowledge on the
Eve of Colonialism,” led by Sheldon Pollock.
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