Biography:
Sascha Ebeling was trained in South Asian Studies,
Roamance Languages and Literatures, and General
Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany, and the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
Before joining the University of Chicago in 2005, he
taught Tamil literature and South Asian Studies at the
University of Cologne and also worked for the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences as a Tamil
manuscriptologist in the project “Union Catalogue of
Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections”
(Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in
Deutschland, KOHD).
Research Interests:
Tamil language and literature of all periods, in
particular nineteenth-century literary culture, South
Indian cultures, religion in Angkorean Cambodia,
comparative literary studies.
Regional interests: South India, esp. Tamilnadu and
Kerala, Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia,
Singapore).
Current Research Projects:
- Since 2000, project director of the Digital Archive
of South Indian Inscriptions (DASI), a project to
develop a comprehensive digital corpus of South Indian
inscriptions in collaboration with the Universität zu
Köln, Germany , Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, and the
École Française d'Extrême Orient
(Pondicherry, India). For further details, see the paper
“The Digital Archive of South Indian Inscriptions
(DASI) — A First Report.”
- “Nineteenth-Century Tamil Literature”: A
monograph-length survey of nineteenth-century Tamil
literature will be published in 2008 as The
Transformation of Tamil Literature During the Nineteenth
Century . A lexicon of works and authors is
currently under preparation.
- “The History of Tamil Poetics”: A series of
workshops (organized with Eva Wilden, EFEO, India , and
Thomas Lehmann, Heidelberg University) to examine Tamil
poetological traditions. Project members are currently
compiling critical editions and annotated translations of
the Tamil primary sources. The first publication, “A
Preliminary Annotated Translation of Kalaviyal
alias Iraiyanar Akapporul,” will be published
in 2008.
- “The poet and linguist Friedrich Rückert as a
scholar of Tamil”: A documentation of Friedrich
Rückert's researches on Tamil language and
literature.
- “Religions of Indian Origin in Angkor-Period
Cambodia”: This project seeks to re-assess the cultural
history of the transformations that Saivism, Vaishnavism
and Buddhism underwent in medieval Cambodia. See the paper
“Siva, Visnu, Buddha: Religion und Staat im Kambodscha
der Angkor-Periode (9.–14. Jh.)”.
Publications Include:
- The Transformation of Tamil Literature During the
Nineteenth Century, monograph forthcoming in 2008.
- With Jean-Luc Chevillard, Thomas Lehmann, Takanobu
Takahashi and Eva Wilden, “A Preliminary Annotated
Translation of Kalaviyal alias Iraiyanar
Akapporul,” forthcoming 2008. [A new translation
of a text on Tamil poetics prepared jointly by our
research group on Tamil poetic traditions.]
- “Love Classified in Pre-Modern Tamil Poetry: Notes
on Tirukkovaiyar and the kovai
genre,” forthcoming 2009.
- “Siva, Visnu, Buddha: Religion und Staat im
Kambodscha der Angkor-Periode (9.–14. Jh.),” in:
Schalk, Peter et al. (eds.). 2005. Im Dickicht der
Gebote. (= Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Historia
religionum 26). Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet. pp.
435–461. [Siva, Visnu, Buddha: Religion and State in
Angkor-Period Cambodia, in German].
- “The Digital Archive of South Indian Inscriptions
(DASI) — A First Report,” in: Jean-Luc Chevillard
und Eva Wilden (eds.). 2004. South-Indian Horizons.
Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the
occasion of his 70th birthday. Pondicherry: Institut
Français and EFEO. pp. 495–503.
- With Thomas Lehmann and Ulrike Niklas (eds.). 2004.
Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives.
Proceedings of the Panel 36 at the 17th European
Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg,
September 9th to 14th, 2002. In: NewKOLAM
9+10, January 2004.
Courses taught:
Advanced Tamil, Introduction to the History of Tamil
Literature, Nineteenth-Century Tamil Literature, Readings
in World Literature, Maswterpieces of European Poetry,
Reading the Middle Ages: Europe and Asia.
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