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Martha Ann Selby is an American professor of South Asian Studies and Indology. She has translated Sangam poetry into English. She will be taking up the position as Sangam Chair of South Asian Studies at Harvard University as of September 1, 2022. | Martha Ann Selby is an American professor of South Asian Studies and Indology. She has translated Sangam poetry into English. She will be taking up the position as Sangam Chair of South Asian Studies at Harvard University as of September 1, 2022. | ||
Education | == Education == | ||
Selby obtained her doctoral degree in Tamil and Sanskrit literature from the University of Chicago in 1994. Since then she has taught at Chicago, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Columbia University. She joined the University of Texas faculty in 1999. She has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has also been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the 2005–2006 academic year. | |||
Selby | == Academic Contributions == | ||
Martha Ann Selby is an associate professor of South Asian studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As of September 1, 2022, she will take up position as the Sangam Chair of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. | |||
Martha Ann Selby studies classical literatures of Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil. She is particularly interested in records of gynaecological practices and death in ancient literary texts and medical manuals. When we was teaching at the Radcliffe Institute, she developed an interest in Tamil Sangam poetry and translated five hundred ''agam'' poems from the corpus. | |||
Martha Ann Selby is also interested in modern Tamil literature. She has translated writer Dilipkumar's short stories into English (''Cat in the Agraharam and other stories''). | |||
== Literary Place == | |||
As a Tamil scholar, researcher and translator, | |||
Revision as of 00:58, 11 May 2022
Martha Ann Selby is an American professor of South Asian Studies and Indology. She has translated Sangam poetry into English. She will be taking up the position as Sangam Chair of South Asian Studies at Harvard University as of September 1, 2022.
Education
Selby obtained her doctoral degree in Tamil and Sanskrit literature from the University of Chicago in 1994. Since then she has taught at Chicago, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Columbia University. She joined the University of Texas faculty in 1999. She has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has also been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the 2005–2006 academic year.
Academic Contributions
Martha Ann Selby is an associate professor of South Asian studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As of September 1, 2022, she will take up position as the Sangam Chair of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.
Martha Ann Selby studies classical literatures of Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil. She is particularly interested in records of gynaecological practices and death in ancient literary texts and medical manuals. When we was teaching at the Radcliffe Institute, she developed an interest in Tamil Sangam poetry and translated five hundred agam poems from the corpus.
Martha Ann Selby is also interested in modern Tamil literature. She has translated writer Dilipkumar's short stories into English (Cat in the Agraharam and other stories).
Literary Place
As a Tamil scholar, researcher and translator,
