Phd in CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA

email: carmela.mastrangelo@uniroma1.it
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Carmela Mastrangelo is researcher (RtdB) in Indology and teaches Sanskrit language and literature. She studied Classical Philology, graduating from Sapienza in 2008. She was then awarded from the same University with a doctorate in Civilizations, Cultures, and Societies of Asia and Africa in 2012. Her dissertation focused on the first Sanskrit grammars ever printed in Europe, i.e. Paulinus of St. Bartholomew’s Sidharubam seu grammatica Samscrdamica (Roma 1790) and Vyàcarana seu locupletissima Samscrdamicae linguae institution (Roma 1804), and on their Indian sources, which were evidence of a specific grammatical tradition spread in the South of India as from the 10th century. Between 2014 and 2017 she was given a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) to further elaborate her work on Sanskrit grammars, which she published as a book in 2018, i.e. Paolino da San Bartolomeo grammatico del sanscrito (Milano, Unicopli). She is actually PI of two Sapienza projects on Indian classical theatre and authors of many articles in international journals. Her main research interests also include linguistics and history of Oriental studies in Europe. She collaborated with the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani on the Dizionario biografico degli italiani, for which she wrote the entries of the Italian indologists. From 2014 to 2019, she was the secretary of the editorial board of the Rivista degli studi orientali (RSO); from 2021 she is the reference person for the South Asian section of the same journal.