Indology

Dr. Elena Mucciarelli

Since November 2017: Martin Buber Fellow

http://buberfellows.huji.ac.il/node/429

Curriculum Vitae

Elena Mucciarelli has graduated (cum laude) in 2007 in Classical Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano with a thesis entitled “Una radice indoeuropea del desiderio nella Ṛgvedasaṃhitā” (Supervisors Prof. Cinzia Pieruccini and Dr. Paola Rossi, second supervisor Prof. Roberto Giacomelli). In 2007-2008 she was awarded with a two-years grant for studying abroad by the same University to develop her research on ritual language in Brāhmaṇas at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, under the supervision of Dr. Mirella Lingorska.

In 2011 she has completed her PhD in Indological and Tibetan Studies at the University of Turin-Milan and in Cultural Studies at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, within the program “Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral thesis” (“co-tutelle de these”). Her research, tutored by Prof. Giuliano Boccali and Prof. Klaus Butzenberger, dealt with the change in the language and semantics along the development of the Vedic ritual:

"Changes in the semantics between the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā and the Brāhamaṇas".

In the academic year 2011-2014 she has collaborated with the Università degli Studi di Milano offering seminars on Vedic culture and language (2011-2012) and on Indian theater (2013-2014); From 2010 until 2012 she has worked for the IULM (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione) giving lectures on ritual forms in the Indian Subcontinent.

During the year 2013 she has been fellow researcher at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari within the international project "Traces of an Heterodox Concept of Kingship in Ancient, Medieval and Modern India" (U.E. / RAS Research Project), coordinated by Dr. Tiziana Pontillo.

Between 2014 and 2016 she has been fellow researcher within the Project "Kudiyattam: Living Sanskrit Theater in the Kerala Tradition” at the Institute of Indology and Comparative Religion, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

Between 2015 and 2016 she was principal investigator in the Project:

“Kings of the Wild: the re-use of local and Vedic elements in the legitimation process of Medieval Karnataka”

supported by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (DFG, ZUK 63).

Since 2017 she is research assistant in the project “"Das Hermann-Gundert Portal" (funded by DFG) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Bibliothek.

Area of interest:

  • Vedic Studies
  • Comparative and Historical Linguistics
  • South Indian Cultural History
  • Digital Humanities

Books

  • 2014 Changes in the semantics between the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā and the Brāhamaṇas. Tübingen: Online-Ausg.- TOBIAS-lib.
  • 2011 (with. M. Angelillo) Il Brahmanesimo. Il cuore del pensiero religioso vedico. Como: Xenia

Articles

  • 2017 (forth.) Elena Mucciarelli “An Arena for Experimentation: The Blurring Structure of Mantrāṅkaṃ”. In Two masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam, ed. by H. Oberlin, D. Shulman and E. Mucciarelli. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 2017 (forth.) Heike Oberlin-Elena Mucciarelli: “Plucking the flowers: Theatre and Ritual in Mantrāṅkam”. In Two masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam, ed. by H. Oberlin, D. Shulman and E. Mucciarelli. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 2017 “The steadiness of a non-steady place: re-adaptation of the imagery of the chariot”. In Adaptive Reuse: Aspects of Creativity in South Asian Cultural History, ed. by E. Freschi and P. A. Maas. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 101).
  • 2016 “Talking Stones: Royal Inscriptions in Medieval Karṇāṭaka”. In Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism in the Indian Cultural Dynamics, ed. by Cristina Bignami and Ewa Dębicka-Borek. (Cracow: Cracow Indological Studies XVIII).
  • 2016 “Goddess and Fertility in the Vedic Period: looking for Stratifications”. In Cross-Cutting Asian Studies: an Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. by S. Bindi, E. Mucciarelli, T. Pontillo. Delhi: DK.
  • 2015 (forth.) (with Frank Köhler) “Dīrghátamas: Personality, speech and enigma”. In Proceedings of the 6th International Vedic Workshop, Kozhikode, 7-10 January, 2014.
  • 2015 “Lost Speech: the poetry of sattrins”. In The Volatile World of Sovereignty: The Vrātya Problem and Kingship in South Asia, ed. by T. Pontillo, C. Bignami, M. Dore, E. Mucciarelli. Delhi: DK.
  • 2014 “Quotations in Vedic Literature: is the changing of a mantra a stylistic device or the degeneration of a ‘beautiful mind?”. In Journal of Indian Philosophy. Volume 43, Issue 4 (2015): 559-579 (DOI: 10.1007/s10781-014-9247-2).
  • 2013 (with C. Bignami) “La maschera evocazione del divino: rito e teatro nell’india del Sud”. In Chimica di un amore. La Collezione Rimschneider, ed. by Paolo Maiullari. Milano: Edizioni Casagrande (Antropunti/8), 36-49.
  • 2013 “How to tell the presence of the gods: a R̥gvedic technique”. In Stylistic Devices in Indian Literature and Arts, ed. by G. Boccali and E. Mucciarelli. Milano: Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario, 133-144.
  • 2012 “Earliest texts. How to interpret them”. In Rivista degli Studi Orientali, [2011]: 317-321.
  • 2011 “Le forme del desiderio nella letteratura dell’India antica. Analisi di alcuni sviluppi semantici”. In Signa Antiquitatis, Quaderni di Acme, ed. by M. P. Bologna and M. Ornaghi. Milano: Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario, 199-209.
  • 2010 “Van- nella letteratura vedica: ipotesi per un significato rituale”. In Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 135-140.
  • 2009 “Non-realistic images of animals in the Ṛgvedasaṃhitā”. In Pandanus 09/02, ed. by Jaroslav Vacek. Prague: Triton, 89-101.

Edited Books:

  • 2017 (forth.) Oberlin, H. & E. Mucciarelli (eds.). Paper & Pixel: Digital Humanities in Indology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • 2017 (forth.) Oberlin, H.; Shulman, D.; and Mucciarelli E. (eds.) Two masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 2016 Bindi, S.; Mucciarelli, E.; Pontillo, T. (eds.) Cross-Cutting Asian Studies: an Interdisciplinary Approach. Delhi: DK.
  • 2015 Pontillo, T.; Bignami, C.; Dore, M.; Mucciarelli, E. (eds.) The Volatile World of Sovereignty: The Vrātya Problem and Kingship in South Asia. Delhi: DK.
  • 2013 Boccali, G.; Mucciarelli, E.(eds.) Stylistic Devices in Indian Literature and Arts. Milano: Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario.
  • 2012 Freschi, E.; Keidan, A.; Adduci, M.; Bignami, C.; Cuneo, D.; Formigatti, C.A.; Mucciarelli, E. (eds.). “Proceedings of the first Coffee Break Conference: The Study of Asia between Antiquity and Modernity”. In Rivista di Studi Orientali LXXXIV [2011].

Projects:

Scientific activities:

Asien-Orient-Institut (AOI)

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