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Prof. Dr. Eva De Clercq
Prof. Dr. Eva De Clercq
ev.declercq@ugent.be
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BOCULT - Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion
ECC - Economies, Comparisons, Connections
GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
POWEZIE - Studie van de poëzie
SANGH - South Asia Network Ghent
Research Focus
Area studies
Gender
History
Linguistics
Literary studies
Religion
Research Methodology
Comparative
Field research
Language and text analysis
Surveys
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Evangelists and epigones. Sanskrit adaptations of Mahābhārata by Jains in 13th-century Gujarāt
(
2021
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Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East African’ Jains
(
2019
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2023
)
Examination of the religious other. Jainism advocating itself in the Dharmaparīkṣās
(
2016
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2019
)
Online religion in a transnational context. Representing and practicing Jainism in diasporic communities
(
2015
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2018
)
Nayacandra Sūri’s Hammīramahākāvya in context. Praise and criticism in historical literature of the Chauhan kings
(
2015
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2019
)
Non-finite verbs in Rajasthani
(
2015
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2019
)
Indian realism from contemporary perspective
(
2013
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2017
)
North Indian Digambara jainism (13th-17th century). The age of the Bhattarakas
(
2012
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2016
)
Jain theories of inference
(
2012
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2015
)
Kalbeliyas. Dancers, gypsies or snake charmers. Staging of authenticity and dynamics of identity
(
2012
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2016
)
Bhadrakali and the Bhadrotpatti. A comparative study of a regional goddess and her puranic narrative tradition
(
2012
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2016
)
Publications
Most recent publications
De Clercq, Eva, and Tine Vekemans. “Rejecting and Appropriating Epic Lore.”
Jaina Narratives
, edited by Peter Flügel, Routledge, 2023.
De Clercq, Eva. “Biographies of Rsabha and the Rise of Satrunjaya.”
Jaina Narratives
, edited by Peter Flügel, Routledge, 2023.
De Clercq, Eva.
The Life of Padma, Volume 2
. Vol. 35, Harvard University Press, 2023.
Gerris, Jan, and Eva De Clercq, editors.
Grammatica van Het Klassieke Sanskrit
. 2nd ed., Academia Press, 2021.
De Clercq, Eva, and Simon Winant. “The Fate of Kīcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha Mahābhāratas.”
Many Mahābhāratas
, edited by Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai, SUNY Press, 2021, pp. 213–35.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Sanskrit I
Sanskrit II
Sanskrit III
Sanskrit IV
Classical languages of South Asia: language, text and context 1
Classical languages of South Asia: language, text and context 2
Oriental Literature: South Asia