Stephanie Jamison

Professor, Department of Asian Languages & CulturesKeywords: Asia, India, South Asiamany years

she has concentrated on Indo-Iranian, especially (Vedic) Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan languages andtextual materials. She works not only on language and linguistics, but also literature and poetics, religion and law, mythology and ritual, and gender studies in these languages. She is also interested in comparative mythology and poetics, especially with Greek materials. Professor Jamison's teaching at UCLA spansthese topics, including Sanskrit, Middle Indo-Aryan, and Old Iranian language and literature, Indo-European and Indo-Iranian linguistics, and undergraduate courses on Classical Indian civilization. Her current major project, jointly with Joel P. Brereton (University of Texas, Austin), is a complete new English translation of the oldest Sanskrit text, the Rig Veda.

Book Publications

The Rig Veda between Two Worlds: Four Lectures at the College de France, May 2004.

College de France, Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 74. 2007.

Sacrificed Wife / Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, andHospitality in Ancient India. Oxford University Press. 1996

The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India. Cornell University Press. 1991.

Function and Form in the -aya-formations of the Rig Veda and Atharva Veda. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1983.

Stephanie Jamison was originally trained as a historical and Indo-European linguist (PhD Yale 1977), but for