Daniela Rossella (University of Potenza)

Ph.D. Dr. Daniela Rossella

Adjunct Professor in Indology and History of Religions
University of Potenza, ITALY

Adjunct Professor in Indology
Conservatorio di Musica of Vicenza, ITALY

Mailing address:
Piazza Buzzati, 5
43122 Parma, ITALY

Phone: 39/521-773854
Fax:   39/521-773854
Email: ghezziem@tin.it
Email: daniela.rossalla@conservatorio.pr.it

Description of work:

* Degree in Sanskrit Language and Literature, magna cum laude, at the 
University of Milan, Italy. 

* Ph.D. at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy.  

* Fellowship (2004) in the Oxford Centre for Hindu and Vaisnava Studies in 
Oxford (UK)

* Fields of research: Indian aesthetics and rhetorics; Sanskrit poetry and 
dramaturgy; devotional religion; comic literature of India; women's position in India.

* Publications: translations from Sanskrit into Italian (Samayamatrika; 
Sakuntalopakyana; Amarushataka; Sattasai; Mayurashtaka; Anangaranga; 
Rasamajari; Bhaminivilasa; Ratimanjari; Rasikaranjana; 
Shriramapratapacharitamahakavya; Hamsaduta; Rathangaduta; 
Shringararasashtaka; and an anthology of Sanskrit poetry); several essays 
on kavya, bhakti, alamkarashastra, and stridharma.

* Current projects: analysis of the origins of kavya; translation from 
Pali into Italian of the Thera-Therigatha; translation of Rupa Gosvamins 
Padyavali.