Ulrike Stark
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Professor Field Specialties : Hindi language and literature	The University of Chicago 1130 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Office: (773) 702-8345 Fax: (773) 834-3254 Email: ustark@uchicago.edu
Ulrike Stark's research focuses on Hindi literature, South Asian book history and print culture, and North Indian intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She joined the Department in September 2005, having taught at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg for over a decade. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bamberg and received her Habilitation (German professorial qualification) at Heidelberg University in 2004. Fields of Expertise: Hindi language and literature Print culture and book history in South Asia North Indian intellectual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries Hindi-Urdu interface Education: Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Bamberg, 1994 M.A., Romance Philology (French and Spanish) and Indology, University of Bonn, 1989 Post-doctoral Qualification: Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Moderne Indologie (Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures), University of Heidelberg, 2004 Selected Publications: Monographs An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India, 1858-1895. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007. Tage der Unzufriedenheit: Identität und Gesellschaftsbild in den Romanen muslimischer Hindischriftsteller (1965-1990). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (“Days of Discontent: Identity and Society in the Novels of Muslim Hindi Writers,” Bamberg, Univ. Diss., 1994, in German with an English summary). Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes (forthcoming) “Publishers as Patron and the Commodification of Hindu Religious Texts in Nineteenth-Century North India.” In: Heidi Pauwels (ed.). Festschrift Monika Boehm-Tettelbach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (forthcoming) “A Qur'an for Every Household: Mass Printing and the Commercialization of Islamic Sacred Texts in Nineteenth-Century Lucknow.” In: Sorin Antohi and Nadia al-Bagdadi (eds.), Sacred Texts and Print Culture: The Case of Qur'an and Bible of the Orthodox Churches during the 18th and 19th Century. Budapest: Central European University. “Makkhanlal's Sukhsagar (1846/47): The First Complete Version of the Bhagavata Purana in Modern Hindi Prose?.” In: Indica et Tibetica. Festschrift für Michael Hahn. Zum 65. Geburtstag von Freunden und Schülern überreicht, herausgegeben von Konrad Klaus und Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Wien 2007: 491-506 (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde). “Hindi Publishing in the Heart of an Indo-Persian Cultural Metropolis: Lucknow's Newal Kishore Press (1858-1895).” In: Stuart Blackburn/Vasudha Dalmia (eds.), India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Permanent Black 2004: 251-279. “Towards a New Hindu Woman: Educational ideals and female role models in Shivprasad's Vamamanrañjan (1856).” In: Ulrike Roesler and Jayandra Soni (eds.), Aspects of the Female in Indian Culture. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag 2004: 167-179. “Politics, Public Issues and the Promotion of Urdu Literature: Avadh Akhbar, the First Urdu Daily in Northern India.” The Annual of Urdu Studies, Vol. 18.1, 2003: 66-94. “Of Saintliness and Sex: the aged protagonist in Shrilal Shukla's Bisrampur ka sant (1998).” In: Th. Damsteegt (ed.), Heroes and Heritage: The Protagonist in Indian Literature and Film. Leiden: Research School CNWS 2003: 166-183. “Lucknow's Jalsa-i Tahzib: Urbane Elite, organisierte Handlungskompetenz und frühe ‘associational culture’ in Britisch-Indien.” In: Harald Fischer-Tiné (ed.), Handeln und Verhandeln: Kolonialismus, transkulturelle Prozesse und Handlungskompetenz. Münster: LIT 2002: 51-73. “In search of the missing self: the hero as failure and the writer's self-reflexive quest in Manzur Ahtesham's Dastan-e lapata (1995).” In: Dirk W. Lönne (ed.), Tohfa-e-Dil. Festschrift Helmut Nespital. Reinbek: Dr. Inge Wezler Verlag 2001: 471-486. “Educating women, educating a daughter: Babu Navincandra Rai, Lakshmi-Sarasvati-samvad (1869) and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani.” In Antony Copley (ed.), Gurus and their followers. Delhi: Oxford University Press 2000: 33-56. “Sex, Drugs, and the Importance of Being Modern: Pankaj Bishts Schriftstellerroman Lekin darvaza.” In: Archív Orientální 65, 1997: 209-219. Edited Volumes Mauern und Fenster: Neue Erzählungen aus Indien. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag 2006 [an anthology of modern Hindi short stories in German translation]. Translations (forthcoming, with Jason Grunebaum) Balmukund Gupt, “Shivashambhu's Letters to Lord Curzon.” In: Shobhna Nijhawan (ed.), Translating Nationalism. An Anthology of Hindi and Urdu Texts. Delhi: Permanent Black. Work in Progress: (book manuscript) In Times of Transition. Raja Shivaprasad ‘Sitara-e Hind’ [A biography of Raja Shivaprasad of Benares (1824-1895), public intellectual, man of letters, historian and eminent educator in 19th-century North India]. Associational Culture and Active Citizenship in Colonial Lucknow: The Jalsah-e Tahzib. (with J. Grunebaum and V. Ritter) The Chicago Hazari. A Glossary of Literary Terms in Hindi. (with Jason Grunebaum) “The Tale of the Missing Man.” A translation of Manzoor Ahtesham's Hindi novel Dastan-e Lapata (1995). Related Links: Return to Main Faculty Page .