Gary Tubb

Gary Tubb

Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor and Chair in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Gary Tubb earned a PhD in Sanskrit and Indian studies from Harvard University in 1979, where he was previously a professor, chair of Sanskrit and Indian studies and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. He also taught at Brown University, Vassar College and Columbia University before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 2007. A leading Sanskrit scholar, Tubb examines the tradition’s poetics, grammatical forms and commentarial traditions, and draws insights across the culture’s philosophy, religion and literature. Tubb can speak Sanskrit, German, Hindi, and Urdu and is familiar with Marathi, French, Latin, Spanish, and Prakrit. Tubb is the author of Scholastic Sanskrit: A Handbook for Students.

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