Cohort Year:
2012
Advisor(s):
Sascha Ebeling
Subject Area:
Tamil
Research Interests:
Early modern South Asia, Tamil literature, history of religions, Indian Ocean history, history of emotions
Education:
M.A., Università degli Studi di Torino, 2012
Biography
Margherita Trento is a student of Tamil literature and early modern history whose dissertation explores the social, cultural and literary history of Catholicism in Tamil-speaking South India in the 17th and 18th centuries. She is also engaged in parallel projects on Tamil Śaiva siddhānta in 16th-century Chidambaram, and on songs and popular literature about saints and heroes in southern Tamil Nadu and Travancore in the late 18th century.
Research Interests
Early modern South Asia, Tamil literature, history of religions, Indian Ocean history, and history of emotions.
Teaching Experience
- First year Sanskrit (Teaching Assistant, Fall 2014, Winter 2015)
- Self, Culture & Society (Teaching Assistant, Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016)
- South India 1300-1700: Persons, Politics, Perceptions (Course Assistant, Spring 2016)
- Missionaries, Merchants & Saints: Christianity and Islam in the Indian Ocean, 15th-18th centuries (Lecturer, Winter 2019)