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.
2014/ 2015

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
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
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
2014/ 2015

2012/ 2013

Elizabeth Eva Johnston
The 19th Century 'Wissenschaft des Judentums' and the Future of Philology
2010/ 2011

Rebecca Gould
Translation, Annotation, and Critical Introduction to Rashid al-Din Watwat’s Magic Gardens: On the Nuances of Poetry (Watwat 1984)
2010/ 2011

Burcu Gürsel
Invasive Translations: Violence and Political Mediation of the False-Colonial; France and Ottoman Egypt (1780-1840)
2012/ 2013

2011/ 2012

Hafid Ismaili Alaoui
German Linguistic Orientalism and the Study of Arabic: Beginnings, Issues, Approaches, and Results – A Historical-Critical Study
2013/ 2014

2011/ 2012

Prashant Keshavmurthy
Why do we take Pleasure in Representations? An Answer from eighteenth century Indo-Persian Literary Criticism
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
2010/ 2011

Travis L. Smith
Presenting the Past in the Sacred City: the Varanasi Mahatmya Traditions of the Sanskrit Puranas
2013/ 2014

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