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Sthaneshvar Timalsina ~ Religious Studies Department ~ Spring 2001
The Center for International Studies and the Religious Studies Department hosted
international visiting scholar, Sthaneshvar Timalsina, February 26-March 16, 2001 .
Professor Timalsina is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the
Sanskritic traditions of Yoga, Tantrra, and Hindu philosophy. An Assistant Professor
at Kathmandu’s distinguished Valmiki College at Mahendra Sanskrit University,
Timalsina has worked in collaboration with some of the finest scholars of Indology
from both Europe and American, including Professors David Gordon White, Neils
Gutschow, Axel Michaels, Marry Slusser, and Bernard Kohlver. Timalsina has already
established himself as a prolific writer with over a dozen publications in Sanskrit,
Nepali, and English, and several other works in progress, including a Sanskrit-Tantric
Dictionary that is eagerly awaited by the international community.
Denise Brahimi ~ French Department ~ Spring 2001
Professor Denise Brahimi has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the
Université de Paris-VII since 1971. She taught in Algiers, Algeria from 1960-1971, and
has lived and traveled extensively in Africa. She is a specialist on francophone
writers, dramatists, and filmmakers, especially women. Her numerous books and
articles cover a wide range of writers, especially from North Africa (interview with
Tahar Ben Jelloun, articles on Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, Kateb Yacine, Albert Memmi,
Taos Amrouche, Mohammed Dib, Fatima Gallaire (visiting author at Grinnell in 2000), as
well as authors and filmmakers of sub-Saharan Africa and Québec. She has also
published a book on Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: la femme, la politique, le roman.
In Appareillages, she presents ten comparative studies of literary texts written by men
and women on similar topics. In Maghrébines, she compiled literary profiles of women
of the Maghreb and a more recent book Les Femmes africaines dans la littérature
follows a similar model with profiles of African women. Her critical approach often
draws upon the organic link between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Graham Pitts ~ Theatre Department ~ Spring 2001
Graham Pitts, writer and internationally recognized authority in community cultural
development, joined the Theatre Department at Grinnell College as International Visiting
Scholar. Mr. Pitts taught "Creating Community-Based Theatre," THE 495.01, senior
seminar group, March 12-23, 2001. Graham Pitts has been a teacher of English as a Second Language, a bookseller, a
manager of bookshops and an actor in over fifteen play and ten films. He has been a
full-time playwright and writer since 1978, during which he has enjoyed many writings
residencies and stage commissions in every State of Australia.
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