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Short CV
2020 |
Ernst Waldschmidt Prize
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2019 | Dissertation "Śakti-Pīṭhas – The Sacred Sites of the Goddess in India" |
since 2016 | Teaching Fellow at the Department of Indian Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich |
2014-2016 | Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Indian Studies, University of Zurich |
2015-2023 | Administrative Assistant at the Department of Indian Studies, University of Zurich |
2014-2019 | PhD-Student at the Department of Indian Studies, University of Zurich |
2008-2012 |
Research Fellow at the Institute of the South Asian Languages and Cultures, Free University of Berlin |
2008-2012 | German Research Foundation (DFG) Project Support |
2007 | M.A. Indische Philologie und Religionswissenschaft [Indian Philology and Science of Religion], Free University of Berlin |
Research Interests
- Contemporary Hinduism
- Goddess Worship
- Sacred Geography
- Hindi Literature
- Epic-Purāṇic Literature
- Interdependence between Sanskrit and Vernacular Literatures
- Tantric Philosophy and Practice
- Sikhism
Publications
Chili, Chai, Chapati. Geschichten aus Indien, hrsg. von Friederike Grenner, Jürgen Neuß und Anna Petersdorf, Klagenfurt: 2011.
Rezension: Kämpchen, M. (Hg.), Aus dem Gurū Granth Sāhib und anderen heiligen Schriften der Sikhs, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Band 111, Heft 1, de Gruyter: Berlin 2016, S. 69–71.
Courses
- Hindi-Sprachkurs 1 und 2 [Hindi Language Course]
- Hindi-Lektüre: Zeitungen und Zeitschriften [Hindi Newspapers and Journals]
- Hindi-Lektüre: Kurzgeschichten [Hindi Short Stories]
- Hindi-Lektüre: Romanliteratur [Hindi Novels]
- Erstellung einer Anthologie moderner Hindi-Kurzgeschichten [Compiling an Anthology of Modern Hindi Short Stories]
- Weibliche Gottheiten im Hinduismus [Female Deities in Hinduism]