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Professor Dr Eva Wilden

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Eva Wilden (b. 1965) studied Indology and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, where she took a doctorate on Vedic ritual and afterwards specialised in Classical Tamil under the guidance of S.A. Srinivasan. Her habilitation Literary Techniques in Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: The Kuṟuntokai was published in 2006. From 2003-2017 she was employed as a researcher at the École Française d'Extrême-Orient in Pondicherry, which for a number of years gave her the occasion to study daily with the late lamented T.V. Gopal Iyer. She is head of the Caṅkam Project, occupied with the digitisation and edition of Classical Tamil manuscripts (http://www.efeo.fr/base.php?code=576) and organiser of a yearly Classical Tamil Summer Seminar in Pondy. From 2014 to 2019 she was PI of the ERC Advanced grant NETamil. Since 2017 she is a professor of Classical Tamil and Manuscript Studies at Universität Hamburg and a member of the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts the Hamburg Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures.

Current research: Coordination of the Caṅkam group and the Caṅkam glossary; critical edition with annotated English translation of Akanāṉūṟu Maṇimiṭai­pavaḷam and translation of the works of Nammāḻvār.

Book publications

  • A Grammar of Old Tamil for Students. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie 137, NETamil series 3, Pondicherry 2018.
  • A Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation with Glossary of the Akanāṉūṟu; Volume 1-3 – Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie 134.1-3 – NETamil series 1.1-3 – Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature – 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, Pondicherry 2018.
  • Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 3, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014.
  • Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Kuṟuntokai + Glossary and Statistics. 3 volumes, EFEO/Tamilmann Patippakam, Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature1-2.3, Chennai 2010.
  • (Ed.) Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary, Proceeding of a Workshop in Honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer, IFP-EFEO, Collection Indologie 109, Pondichéry 2009.
  • Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Naṟṟiṇai + Glossary. 3 volumes, EFEO/Tamilmann Patippakam, Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature1-1.3, Chennai 2008.