Fellow Archive

Fellow Archive

Between 2010 and 2015, the program annually invited up to five promising postdoctoral scholars to conduct their own research within the framework of Zukunftsphilologie. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, scholars from different philological backgrounds were encouraged to communicate on more general issues that arose from their individual studies. The fellows contributed to the program’s on-going activities, conceptualized and organized workshops, and gave at least one presentation during their fellowship.
Below, you will find an overview of the 22 research projects that Zukunftsphilologie supported.

Zukunftsphilologie
2014/ 2015

Joydeep Bagchee

Critical Editing of Sanskrit Texts: The Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2011/ 2012

Elisabetta Benigni

Anselm Turmeda/Abdullah b. Abdullah al-Turjuman (1355-1423): Franciscan Friar, Catalonian Poet, Muslim Polemicist, and Turjuman - Conversion and Translation in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2013/ 2014

Thibaut d'Hubert

The Celtic Fringe and Early Orientalism in Bengal, c. 1770–1790: Editing and Analyzing the Indo-Persian Texts of the Staatsbibliothek’s John Murray Collection

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2011/ 2012

Lejla Demiri

Abd al Ghanī al-Nābulusī''s (1641-1731) Understanding of the Religious 'Other', particularly his Views regarding Christianity and Christian Theology

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2014/ 2015

Lewis Doney

The Foundations and Transformations of Tibetan Buddhist Historiography

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2012/ 2013

Elizabeth Eva Johnston

The 19th Century 'Wissenschaft des Judentums' and the Future of Philology

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2010/ 2011

Rebecca Gould

Translation, Annotation, and Critical Introduction to Rashid al-Din Watwat’s Magic Gardens: On the Nuances of Poetry (Watwat 1984)

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2010/ 2011

Burcu Gürsel

Invasive Translations: Violence and Political Mediation of the False-Colonial; France and Ottoman Egypt (1780-1840)

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2012/ 2013

Ya'ar Hever

The Discourse of the 'Semitic': Language, Nation and Race

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2011/ 2012

Hafid Ismaili Alaoui

German Linguistic Orientalism and the Study of Arabic: Beginnings, Issues, Approaches, and Results – A Historical-Critical Study

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2013/ 2014

Sonam Kachru

The Elusive Mark of the Mental: Philosophy of Mind with Vasubandhu

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2011/ 2012

Prashant Keshavmurthy

Why do we take Pleasure in Representations? An Answer from eighteenth century Indo-Persian Literary Criticism

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2014/ 2015

Hajnalka Kovacs

The Debate on the Indian vs. Iranian Usage of Persian and the Formation of the Canon of Persian Poetry in Eighteenth-Century India

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2010/ 2011

Travis L. Smith

Presenting the Past in the Sacred City: the Varanasi Mahatmya Traditions of the Sanskrit Puranas

Bio & Project

Zukunftsphilologie
2013/ 2014

Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha

A History of the Transmission of Sanskrit in Britain and America, 1832-1939

Bio & Project