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 www.christopherldiamond.com Education Present Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Literature, Seattle, USA Advisor: Heidi Pauwels Committee: Richard Salomon and Christian Novetzke 2015 M.A. in South Asian Languages and Literature, Seattle, USA Advisor: Heidi Pauwels Thesis: City of the Turks: Urban Encounters in Vidyāpati s Kīrttilatā 2011 Bachelor of Arts in Hindi & Music School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, U.K. Publications Articles The Strange Afterlife of Vidyāpati Ṭhākura (c. 1350-1450 CE): Anthologies and Textual Innovation in the Pada Tradition. Special Issue of Manuscript Studies (A Journal of the Schoenburg Institute for Manuscript Studies. ed. Arthur Dudney and Neeraja Poddar. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: Accepted for 2019 release. Pragmatics and Ideals: Masculine-Warrior Ethics & Memory in Three Tellings of the Hammīra Narrative. Edited Volume (Routledge) OR Special Journal Edition. eds. Eva De Clercq (Ghent University, Belgium) and Heidi Pauwels (UW). Accepted. Conference Proceedings Mithila and the Hindi Heartland: Negotiating the Periphery in Raghunandana Dās Mithilā-Nāṭaka (1923) Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared Vision to Shared Future. Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) Silver Jubilee Conference Proceedings. New Delhi: Primus Publications, forthcoming Spring 2019.
Book Reviews The Other Rāmāyaṇa Women: Regional Rejection and Response. Edited by John Brockington, Mary Brockington, and Mandakranta Bose. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series). Pp. 192. London and New York, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27 (4). Cambridge University Press: 2017 685 86. Awards, Grants, and Fellowships 2017 2018 Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellowship 2017 2018 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship [declined] 2017 JSIS South Asia Studies Student Fund Travel Award 2016 AIIS Summer Language Fellowship (Sanskrit) 2016 Frank F. Conlon South Asia Fellowship [declined] 2016 FLAS Fellowship for Advanced Persian 2015 Scott Swaner Memorial Book Award for Scholarship 2015 FLAS Fellowship for Advanced Persian 2014 FLAS Fellowship for Elementary Persian 2013 2014 FLAS Fellowship for Advanced Bengali 2013 FLAS Fellowship for Advanced Bengali 2012 2013 FLAS Fellowship for Intermediate Bengali 2012 FLAS Fellowship for Elementary Bengali Invited Lectures and Workshops June 2018 The Many Vidyāpatis and Working with Multilingual Manuscripts in South Asia The American Center USIEF and the United States Consulate-General Kolkata, West Bengal, India August 2017 Readings of Selected Vidyāpati Padas from the Rāgataraṅgiṇī. 2 nd Annual Middle Bengali Retreat and Workshop Sapientia Transylvanian Hungarian University Miercurea Ciuc/Csíkszereda, Romania March 2017 At the Margins in the Center: Maithili Identity and Literature in the Hindi Heartland ADRI Silber Jubilee Conference: Bihar & Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision Asian Development Research Institute Patna, Bihar, India Conference Papers 2018 Ādi-Bhakta to Modern Man: Bengali Literary, Religious, and Popular Transformations of Vidyāpati (17 th -20 th centuries CE)
47 th Annual Conference on South Asia October 11-14 2018 Pragmatics and Ideals: Masculine-Warrior Ethics & Memory in Three Tellings of the Hammīra Narrative. 25 th European Conference on South Asian Studies EHESS Paris, France July 24-27 2018 Where Did Devī Go?: The Popular-Courtly Divide in Vidyāpati s Maithili Padas. 13 th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland July 18-22 2018 Will the Real Vidyāpati Please Stand Up!: Literary Appropriation and the Vernacular Identity. South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference New Delhi, India February 27 th 2016 Mother India, Mother Mithila: Mourning the Nation, Celebrating the Motherland in the Mithilānāṭaka 45 th Annual Conference on South Asia October 2015 Negotiations of the Classical, Vernacular, and Popular in Maithili Drama. South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada March 2014 Negotiations of the Classical, Vernacular, and Popular in Maithili Drama. 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia October 16-19 2013 City of the Turks: Urban Encounters in Vidyāpati s Kīrttilatā [pt II]. 2nd Biennial Texas Asia Conference (TAC) University of Texas Austin, TX, USA December 2013 City of the Turks: Jaunpur as Remembered by a Maithili Poet [pt I]. Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (WCAAS) Weber State University Ogden, UT, USA November
2013 Maithili Refugees in a Persian World: Vidyāpati s Kīrttilatā. Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Seattle, WA, USA April Teaching Instructor Winter 2018 Autumn 2018 Modern South Asian Literature Literature of Ancient and Medieval India Teaching Assistant Spring 2017 Winter 2017 Autumn 2016 Winter 2016 Autumn 2015 Spring 2015 Winter 2015 Autumn 2014 The Ramayana in Comparative Perspective Modern South Asian Literature Fairies, Genies, and Monsters: The Romance in India Modern Hindi Literature (Drama) Elementary Hindi Perceptions of the Feminine Divine in Hinduism Hindu-Muslim Literary Encounters Fairies, Genies, and Monsters: The Romance in India Languages Modern Spoken and Written Hindi (fluent), Bengali (fluent), Persian (advanced), Urdu (intermediate), and French (intermediate) Medieval & Ancient Research Languages Maithili, Sanskrit, Braj Bhasa, Avadhi, Sant Bhasa, Middle Bengali, Avahattha, Prakrit Study and Research Abroad 2017-18 Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellowship Affiliated: Jadavpur University (Dept. of Bengali) 2017 Braj Bhasa Retreat and Workshop University of Sofia Bansko, Bulgaria 2016 Advanced Sanskrit Summer Program AIIS Pune, India 2013 Advanced Bengali Summer Program
AIIS Kolkata, India 2012 Elementary Bengali Course SASLI, University of Wisconsin Madison 2009 2010 Advanced Hindi Language Academic Year Program AIIS Jaipur, India 2006 SAGE High School Study Abroad South India Extracurricular Services 2015 Colloquium Coordinator Department of Asian Languages and Literature Graduate Colloquium -- Seattle, WA 2014 Colloquium Coordinator Department of Asian Languages and Literature Graduate Colloquium -- Seattle, WA References Heidi Pauwels Professor of Hindi and Sanskrit Languages and Literatures Department of Asian Languages and Literature hpauwels@uw.edu +1 (206) 543-4235 Richard Salomon William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor, Sanskrit and Indic Studies Department of Asian Languages and Literature rsalomon@uw.edu +1 (206) 543-8763 Christian Novetzke Associate Professor, Comparative Religion & South Asian Studies Jackson School of International Studies novetzke@uw.edu +1 (206) 543-6142