Dr. Ilanit Loewy Shacham

Ph.D. The University of Chicago, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2015

M.A. Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude), Religious Studies, 2007

B.Arch. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Architecture and Town Planning, 1999

South Asian literature (with special focus on pre-modern literature from South India), literary history, religious studies.

Classical Telugu literature, Sanskrit literature, court poetry, bhakti poetry, imperial ideology, religious identity, vernacularization, pre-modern history and historical writing, the Vijayanagara Empire, Kṛṣṇadevarāya, Āmuktamālyada, Śrīvaiṣṇavism

Ronie Parciack, Ilanit Loewy Shacham, “Divine Order, Social Disorder: Debating the Visual Representations of Laloo Prasad Yadav.” In Skoda, Uwe and Brigit Lettman, eds. Mapping Visualities: India and its Visual Cultures, Delhi: Sage, forthcoming.

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, “Divine and Human agency in Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Retelling of the Story of Āṇṭāḷ.”  Journal of Vaishnava Studies 22.2 (2014): 103-124.

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, “Expanding Domains and the Personal, Imperial Style of Kṛṣṇadevarāya.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 56.3 (2019): 311-337.

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, “Loving Viṣṇu: His and Hers Perspectives from Sixteenth-Century South India”, International Journal of Hindu Studies 24.2 (2020): 143-176.

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, “Irreconcilable Differences and (un)Conventional Love in Bhaṭṭumūrti’s Vasucaritramu” In Sensitive Readings, eds. Charles Hallisey and Yigal Bronner, Oakland: University of California Press, 2022, 182-188. 

Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. “Dangerous to Auspicious: Vernacular Transformations of a Telugu Epic,” forthcoming in South Asian History and Culture.

Dr. Loewy Shacham is currently working on a collaborative project on the Telugu Mahābhārata by Nannaya Bhatta (ca. eleventh century) with Prof. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Emory University).