Tamar Reich earned her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1998. She also has an M.A. in Religious Studies from the Hebrew University and an M.A. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard.
Prior to joining our department in the fall of 2007, Dr. Reich taught at Tel-Aviv University (Israel), at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), an
d at the University of North Florida.
Dr. Reich’s main language of research is Sanskrit, and her area of concentration is the religions of India, especially Hinduism. Among her interests are the formation of Hinduism in the post-Vedic and classic period; Indian classical literature in Sanskrit; religion and literature in modern South Asia; women in South Asia; religion and nationalism, religion and violence.
Dr. Reich’s research so far has been on the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic. Her published articles are "Sacrificial Violence and Textual Battles: Inner Textual Interpretation in the Sanskrit Mahabharata" History of Religions 41, 142-169; "The Critic of Ritual as Ritual Reviler in the Ashvamedhika Parvan of the Mahabharata." In: The Mahabharata: What Is not Here Is Nowhere Else. Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 2005. Her article: "The Sacrifice of Battle and the Battle of Yoga, or: How to Word-Away a Discontented Wife?" is forthcoming in Notes from a Mandala: Essays in The History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger. Eds. Laurie L. Patton and David Haberman, University of Delaware Press.
Dr. Reich is currently working on a translation of Books 15-18 of the Mahabharata for the Clay Sanskrit Library series published by New York University Press. At the same time she is working on a book on the Mahabharata tentatively titled; “Inner Textual Interpretation: Textuality and Dialogue in the Sanskrit Mahabharata.”
This semester Dr. Reich is teaching Introduction to Religion and Religions of India. In the spring, she will teach World Religions and Women and Goddesses in Hinduism.
Fall 2009
RLST 100-001 Introduction to Religion T R 12:30-1:45 p.m.
RLST 100-002 Introduction to Religion T R 2:00-3:15 p.m.
RLST 375-001 Religions of India T R 5:05-6:20 p.m.
Fall 2009 Office Hours
T R 9:30 a.m.-12:00p.m.
