Religious Studies

Phyllis Granoff joined the Yale faculty on July 1, 2004. She previously taught at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and has held visiting positions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Berkeley, and Harvard. She has done research in all of the classical religions of India--Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and has also published articles on Indian art and literature. Her interests include contemporary Indian literature and she has published translations of short stories from Bengali and Oriya. She currently edits the Journal of Indian Philosophy. Her recent publications include Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Context, edited with Koichi Shinohara and soon to appear from the University of British Columbia Press, and Pilgrims, Patrons and Place, Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, also edited with Koichi Shinohara, published from the same press in 2003. Her current research includes work on the origins of puranic Hinduism and the development of image worship in Indian religions, a study of pilgrimage in medieval India, particularly in Jainism, and a study of a medieval Indian dramatist and poetic theorist. She is also working on Jain and Buddhist monastic rules and systems of authority in medieval Indian law codes.