Books
River of Being: Sarasvati in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual (in progress)
Being Power: Goddesses, Power and Women (in progress)
Articles Published
"A Third Sex: on the Non-bi-polarity of Gender in Ancient Indian Religion", Cosmos: Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society, Vol. 19 (2003), 251-262.
"Yama and Sarasvati: On Perceptions of Death and the Continuity of Life in Early Vedic Literature", Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 88 (2007), 81-97.
"On Rta and Brahman: Visions of Existence in the Rg-Veda”, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 88 (2007), 61-80.
“In the footprint of Ila”: An Early Image of Sacrificial Cosmology in Vedic Tradition, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 39.4 (2010): 509-521.
Articles Accepted with Revisions
“Taking refuge: an early image of a ‘refuge tree’ in the ·g-Veda”, accepted with revisions by Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses.
International Keynote Speaker
“What is the Relationship between Sarasvati as River and Sarasvati as Goddess of Speech? On Sarasvati in ancient Indian literature”. Keynote presentation with formal rebuttal presented at the Vaidika Samshodana Mandala (Adarsha Sanskrit Shodha Samstha), Pune, Maharashtra for the conference celebrating this institution’s Founder’s Day and Sanskrit Day, August, 2005.
International Conferences (refereed submissions)
“Having ‘Beautiful Wings’: On Fire, Water and the Principle of Life in Vedic Visions of Cosmogony” presented to “The Deep History of Stories”, international conference for scholars specialising in Indo-European mythology organised by the International Association for Comparative Mythology in conjunction with the Traditional Cosmology Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, in August, 2007.
“To open the double doors of Rta: A Study of dvarau rtasya in Rg-Veda 7.95.6 to Sarasvati”, presented at the XIIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2006.
"Creation mythology as a means to cross-cultural understanding", Consequentiality: Mythology, Theology, Ontology, Sydney, Australia, July, 2005.
"The River of Being: Images of the Goddess Sarasvati in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual" presented at the XXXVIth International Congress Asian and North African Studies, Montreal, August, 2000.
“The Third Sex: On the Non-Bipolarity of Gender in Vedic Mythology and Ritual - A Case Study of Sarasvati" presented at the XIth World Sanskrit Conference, Torino, Italy, April, 2000.
National Conferences (refereed submissions)
“Truth and Falsehood, Splitting and Doubling: On the Vedic Myth of the Demon Namuci”, invited presentation in the panel organised by Dr. Patricia Dold to meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Saskatoon, May, 2007.
“In the footprint of Ila”, presented in the panel “Telling Images in Sacred Narrative”. This is a panel which I was invited to organise for the featured day- long symposium on “Text and Narrative” at the meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, May, 2006.
"Text as Revelation and Text as Offering in Ancient Indian Religious Tradition", presented in the panel "Text as Revelation" which I organised for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, London, Ontario, May, 2005.
International Invited Lectures
“Comparative Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Rg-Veda”, a seminar presented to students of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, August, 2005.
“La mythologie de la création en Inde ancienne”, EPHE Vième, Sorbonne, Paris, France. June, 2005.
National Invited Lectures
"Un troisième sexe: sur le non-bipolarité du gendre grammatical et sexuel dans le cas de Sarasvati”, Paper presented at the Département d’anthropologie of the Université de Montréal, October, 1999.
“La déesse en hindouisme”. Département d’anthropologie of the Université de Montréal, October, 1998.
Research Grants Awarded by National Granting Agencies
Faculty Research Award, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 2006
Faculty Research Award, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 2005
Special Opportunities Grant for Female Doctoral Students, Government of Saskatchewan and Government of Canada, 2001, 1999, 1998
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1998
Celanese Canada International Fellowship. Tenured at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, 1997
Research and other Grants Awarded by St. Francis Xavier University
“Living Buddhism: Introduction to the Life of Buddhist Monastics and Living Lay Buddhists”, St. Francis Xavier University Service Learning Faculty Development and Research Support Fund, 2007.
University Research, Publication and Teaching Award, St. Francis Xavier University, 2007 and 2006
SSHRC Small Institutional Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2007 and 2006
University Council for Research Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2006
SSHRC Institutional Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2005
Technology Student Internship, St. Francis Xavier University, 2005
University Council for Research Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2004
Technology Student Internship, St. Francis Xavier University, 2004
SSHRC Institutional Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2004
Start-up Research Grant, St. Francis Xavier University, 2004
Collaborator in National Research Grant Awarded
Canada Council for the Arts, 2004 ($25,000)
Scholarly Translations
Translation of Charles Malamoud, Féminité de la parole : Études sur l’Inde ancienne. Paris : Éditions Albin Michel, 2005 (in progress).
