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1 Whitney Marshall Cox 5325 S. Dorchester Ave Chicago, IL EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago 2011 to 2012 Visiting Associate Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago 2006 to 2013 Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit ( ) Lecturer in Sanskrit ( ) Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS, University of London 2004 to 2006 Lecturer Department of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania EDUCATION 1998 to 2006 MA, PhD with Distinction, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago -Dissertation entitled Making a Tantra in Medieval South India: the Mahārthamañjarī and the Textual Culture of Cōḻa Cidambaram -Committee members: Sheldon Pollock (chair), Yigal Bronner, Kathleen Morrison, David Shulman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 1992 to 1996 BA with Honors, History and Religious Studies University of Virginia -Echols Scholar FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Faculty Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (AH/J00698X/1; Moonset on Sunrise Mountain: Politics, Poetry, and the Making of a South Indian King ) British Academy Small Research Grant British Academy Conference Support Grant (with Vincenzo Vergiani, Cambridge) Fulbright-Hayes DDRA fellowship

2 TEACHING AND ADVISING Courses taught (Departmental:) SANS First Year Sanskrit, I,II, III ( , AQ/WQ ) SANS Second Year Sanskrit (AQ 2014) SANS Third Year Sanskrit (SQ 2012, SQ 2014, WQ 2015) SANS Fourth Year Sanskrit (SQ 2012, SQ 2014, WQ 2015) SANS Advanced Readings in Sanskrit (SQ 2012, SQ 2014, WQ 2015) SALC South Asia as a Unit of Study (WQ 2015) (College:) HUMA Readings in World Literature II (WQ 2014) HUMA Readings in World Literature I (AQ 2014) Plenary lecture, Approaching the Mahābhārata, Readings in World Literature sequence, AQ 2014, 2015 Dissertation committees and advising Committee chair and advisor, Jamal A. Jones, A Poetics of Power in Medieval Andhra (ca CE) (with Sascha Ebeling [SALC] and V. Narayana Rao [Emory University]) Committee chair and advisor, Malarvizhi Jayanth, Rice and Agrarian Slavery in Southern Colonial India (ca ) (with Dipesh Chakrabarty [History, SALC] and Kathleen Morrison [Anthropology]) Committee member, Margherita Trento, Writing Christianity in Early Modern South India ( ) (with Sascha Ebeling [SALC, Chair] and Ines Zupanov [CNRS, Paris]) Committee member, Ilanit Loewy-Shacham, Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmutamālyada and the narration of a Śrīvaiṣṇava community (with Gary Tubb [SALC, Chair], Yigal Bronner [Hebrew University, Jerusalem] and V. Narayana Rao [Emory]). Successfully defended June 15, Committee member, Julie Hanlon Re-Imagining Early Historic South India: An Integrated Analysis of Archaeological, Epigraphic, and Literary Sources (joint degree, SALC-Anthropology, with Sascha Ebeling [SALC, co-chair], Kathleen Morrison [Anthropology, co-chair], Mark Lycett [Anthropology] and François Richard [Anthropology]) Committee member, Victor D'Avella, Creating the Perfect Language: Sanskrit Grammarians and the Exegetic Tradition (with Gary Tubb [SALC, chair] and Steven Collins [SALC)] Committee member, Justin Henry, Distant Shores of Dharma: Religious Historiography in Sri Lanka from the Late Medieval Period (History of Religions, Divinity School; with Steven Collins [SALC, chair] and Charles Hallisey [Harvard]) Supervisor, BA thesis, Ayesha Wadhawan,

3 SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Departmental and Committee roles Affiliations Director of Graduate Studies, SALC ( ) Chair, SALC Language Instruction Subcommittee ( ) SALC-COSAS Anniversary Subcommittee ( ) COSAS Delegate, American Institute of Indian Studies (2013-) Member, Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge (2014-) Principal Researcher (with R. Payne, C. Ando, and P. Copp), Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society project, Imperial Interstices: Agents of Eurasian Interaction in Late Antiquity ( ) SERVICES TO THE FIELD Member, Editorial Board, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Member, Editorial Board, Philological Encounters, Member, Collegium, Zukunftsphilologie Project, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, External examiner, MSt. Oriental Studies, Oxford University, ; M.Phil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University, Anonymous reviewer of submissions for The Journal of Asian Studies, History of Religions, Indian Economic and Social History Review, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Penguin India, Ecole Française d Extrême-Orient, Columbia University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, and Oxford University Press. SEMINARS AND LECTURES (select) Finding Philology in Medieval South India, Séminaire «Mondes indiens», Université de Paris-III, March 9, 2016 Reading Daṇḍin in Hoysala Kaṇṇanūr, Asia in the Mirror of Literature conference, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 13, 2015 The kings are dead, long live the king: Rethinking a royal succession in medieval South India. University of Texas at Austin South Asia Institute seminar series, Life and Death in South India, March 12, 2015 Dakṣiṇātyābhavad bhaṅgiḥ: Literary and political peregrinations in medieval South Asia. Keynote lecture, South Asian Graduate Student Conference, April 4, 2013 Snakes versus Eagles: Vedāntadeśika as Polemical Philologist. Paper delivered at the 41 st Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 12, 2012.

4 Textual Transformation as Philology in Medieval South India Freie Universität, Berlin, February 10, Scribe and Script in the Cālukya West Deccan, Departments of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Mysore (Karnataka, India), February 2, CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Co-organizer (with Isabelle Ratié), Indological Connections between Paris and Chicago University of Chicago Center in Paris, March 10, 2016 Co-organizer (with Islam Dayeh and Nicolai Sinai), Commentary Cultures: Technologies of Medieval Reading Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, May 16-19, Co-organizer and senior participant, Philologies across the Asias: The translation, transmission and transformation of knowledge in early-modern Eurasia. Zukunftsphilologie Winter School, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, December 10-21, Co-organizer (with Vincenzo Vergiani), Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Mediaeval India, Cambridge University, May 21-22, 2009 Co-organizer (with Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea), Language, Culture, and Power: New Directions in South Asian Studies in Honor of Sheldon Pollock. Columbia University, February, 2008 RESEARCH LANGUAGES Sanskrit (very high proficiency: reading, aural comprehension; moderate proficiency: speaking, writing) Old Tamil (high proficiency: reading, aural comprehension) Modern Tamil (high proficiency: reading; moderate proficiency: speaking, aural comprehension, writing) Prakrit (moderate proficiency: reading) Old Javanese (basic proficiency: reading) BOOKS In press Forthcoming 2013 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain (Cambridge University Press; final revised manuscript submitted February 24, 2016) Modes of philology in medieval South India (Philological Encounters series, Brill, under review, publication expected in Autumn, 2016) Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India. Edited by Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani. Collection Indologie no Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry/École Française d Extrême-Orient.

5 2011 South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements With Sheldon Pollock. Edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox and Lawrence McCrea. Asia Past and Present no. 7 Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies. (Indian edition, Primus Books, 2016) ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS a 2013b 2013c 2012a 2012b 2011a 2010a 2010b 2010c Purāṇic Transformations in Coḻa Cidambaram. In Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó, and Michael Williams, eds. Pushpika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume I. Oxford: Oxbow Books. From source-criticism to intellectual history in the poetics of the medieval Tamil country. In Cox and Vergiani, eds [=2013], pp Guest editor, Kalhaṇa s Rājataraṅgiṇī and its Inheritors. Special issue of the Indian Economic and Social History Review, 50 (2), April Literary Register and Historical Consciousness in Kalhaṇa: A Hypothesis. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 50 (2) [=2013b], pp (peerreviewed journal). Bhoja s Alternate Universe Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 (1), pp (peer-reviewed journal). A South Indian Śākta anthropogony: an annotated translation of selections from Maheśvarānanda's Mahārthamañjarīparimala, gāthās 19 and 20. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 40 (1), pp (peer-reviewed journal). Saffron in the Rasam. In Bronner, Cox, and McCrea, eds. [=2011], pp Law, Literature, and the Problem of Politics in Medieval India. In Donald Davis, Timothy Lubin, and Jayanth Krishnan, eds. Law and Hinduism: An Introduction, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp Sharing a single seat: the poetics and politics of male intimacy in Bilhaṇa s Vikramāṅkakāvya Journal of Indian Philosophy, 38 (5), pp (peerreviewed journal). Scribe and Script in the Cālukya West Deccan. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 47 (1): 1-28 (peer-reviewed journal). From āvaṇam to purāṇam In Timothy Barrett, ed. Dimensions of South Asian Religion. SOAS Working Papers in the Study of Religions. The School of Oriental and African Studies, pp The Transfiguration of Tiṇṇaṉ the Archer Indo-Iranian Journal, 48 (3-4), pp (peer-reviewed journal).

6 BOOK REVIEWS (select) 2015a 2015b Gems, Monsters, and Brood-mares for Corpses (review of Mahabharata: A modern retelling by Carole Satyamurti) Public Books, November 15, 2015 ( Philology: The forgotten origins of the modern humanities by James Turner Bryn Mawr Classical Review ( South India Under the Cholas by Y. Subbarayalu. Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 50, no. 3. Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ/pondicherry Inscriptions. Edited by G. Vijayavenugopal. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Epic Undertakings. Papers of the 12 th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 2 edited by Robert P. Goldman and Muneo Tokunaga. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 21, Part 1. Śāstrārambha: Enquiries into the Preamble in Sanskrit edited by Walter Slaje Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. 19. Part 3 Early Śaivism and the Skandapurāṇa. Sects and Centres by Peter C. Bisschop Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 18. Part 1. Kāvya in South India Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry by Herman Tieken Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 12, Part 3.

CHRISTOPHER L. DIAMOND CURRICULUM VITAE

CHRISTOPHER L. DIAMOND CURRICULUM VITAE Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature 225 Gowen Hall Box 353521 Seattle, WA 98195 14707 Wallingford Ave N Shoreline, WA 98043, USA (312) 415-6480 cldiam@uw.edu