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Dr Erin McCann

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Postdoc researcher at the Cluster of Excellence and member of TST

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Erin McCann (b. 1975) studied at the University of Lethbridge and the University of Calgary and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from McGill University in 2016. During her years in the graduate program at McGill she regularly worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Katherine Young and as the Introductory and Intermediate Sanskrit instructor in the Faculty of Religious Studies from 2009 to 2015. From 2016 to 2019 she was a postdoc researcher in NETamil, D Vaiṣṇava group, since March 2109 she is a postdoc researcher in the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence.

Current research: Śrīvaiṣṇava Maṇipravāḷa literature, Socio-linguistics and Contact Languages in South India, the Nālāyira Tivya Pirapantam.

Publications

  • Linguistics and Textual Aspects of Multilingualism in South India. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie 144 – NETamil series 7, Pondichérry 2020(in print; co-edited with Giovanni Ciotti).
  • A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Śrīvacanabhūṣaṇam, EFEO-IFP: collection indologie – NETamil series, Pondichéry 2020 (forthcoming).
  • “A Note on the Rāmānuja Nūṟṟantāti”, in: Wilden, Eva and Anandakichenin, Suganya (eds) 2020(forthcoming): Colophons, Prefaces, Satellite Stanzas – Paratextual Elements and Their Role in the Transmission of South Indian Texts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, de Gruyter, Berlin.