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South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Sascha Ebeling is a literary scholar and cultural historian working on the literatures and cultural traditions of South India, Southeast Asia, and less commonly read literatures in Europe. More specifically, he has published studies of both modern and pre-modern Tamil literature, the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka, the novel in colonial Asia, religion in Angkor-period Cambodia, and modernist poetry around 1900 from a global perspective. Ebeling is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature.