- Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Department of RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Elizabeth Rohlman
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
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| W2012 - RELS 303 - Introduction To Hinduism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| W2012 - RELS 595.10 - Directed Independent Study | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| W2012 - RELS 683.28 - Specialized Studies in Eastern Religions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Areas of Research
My research considers the role of narrative
literature in articulating and constructing religious identity in
pre-modern South Asia. Current research projects address Hindu
narrative literature, especially the puranas; regional Sanskrit and
regionally produced Sanskrit literature; religious geography; and Saiva
and Vaisnava traditions of medieval Gujarat.
Future research projects include a literary study of the Markandeya Purana and an exporation of the traditions of jati (or “caste”) puranas and kula-devis (family or “clan” goddesses) in pre-modern
Additional areas of interest include literature of
Publications
Book Chapter
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. The Dialogue of Tradition: Purana, Gita, and Theological Heritage London: Ashgate, 2012.
Book Review
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Sarasvati: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge, by Catherine Ludvik Journal of Asian Studies, 2011.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes, by Karline McLain Journal of the American Acedemy of Religion, 2011. 270-273.
Conference
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Of Cities, Kings, and Step Wells: Puranic Imaginings of History and Religion (World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, India) 2012.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. “Future Philology” and the Study of Religion in South Asia: New Approaches to the Hindu Puranas (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, California) 2011.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. The Fluid Textual Boundaries of the Sarasvati Purana (Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin) 2009.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Textual Boundaries and Sectarian Identity in the Sarasvati Purana (World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland) 2006.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. The Bodies of Texts: Exploring the Sarasvati Purana through its Manuscripts (Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin) 2005.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. On Religion, Literature, and Geography: Regional and Trans-Regional Narrative Traditions in the Sarasvati Purana (International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, Dubrovnik, Croatia) 2005.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Rethinking the Sanskrit Cosmopolis: Elite and Popular in the Puranas of Gujarat(Fine Arts Faculty, M.S. University of Baroda, India) 2005.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Reading Across Cultures: Positioning the Reader in the Dialogics of Orientalists and Post-Said Scholarship (Seventh International Conference of the Forum for Contemporary Theory, Visakhapatnam, India) 2004.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. On Being a Reader of Texts: Horace Hayman Wilson, Vans Kennedy, and the Fate of the Sanskrit Puranas (Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin) 2003.
Journal Article
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Sectarian Polemics and Textual Travels: Reconstructing the History of the Sarasvati Purana in Light of Two New Manuscripts 2012.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Geographical Imagination and Literary Boundaries in the Sarasvati Purana 2011.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. The Manuscripts of the Sarasvati Purana and Their Histories 59.40545 2010. 151-162.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Textual Authority, Accretion, and Suspicion: The Legacy of Horace Hayman Wilson in Western Studies of the Puranas 52.40545 2005. 55-70.
Other
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Good Bad Sanskrit (Invited lecture presented to the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group, University of Calgary) 2010.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. The Valuable Lessons of Pulp Fiction: An Inquiry into the Sarasvati Purana (Invited lecture to the Forum for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Gujarat, India) 2009.
- Rohlman, Elizabeth. Geographical Imagination and Communal Identity in the Sarasvati Purana (Invited lecture presented to the Center for South Asia Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2006.
Curricula Vitae
Degrees
- 1997 - B.A. - Philosophy - University of Dayton
- 1999 - M.A. - Religious Studies - University of Virginia
- 2007 - Ph.D. - Religious Studies - University of Virginia
Students
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