Sanne Dokter-Mersch is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

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Sanne Dokter-Mersch holds a PhD in Indology. Her research interests include Purāṇa literature, Sanskrit epics, classical Hinduism, in particular early Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism, narratives, narrative techniques, Sanskrit manuscripts and textual criticism. All these topics feature in her PhD thesis titled Revealing Śiva’s Superiority by Retelling Viṣṇu’s Deeds: Viṣṇu’s Manifestation Myths in the Skandapurāṇa. In her dissertation, Dokter-Mersch explores the reasons why Viṣṇu’s manifestation myths receive so much attention in the Śaiva Skandapurāṇa, how they are retold and why they are retold the way they are.

Sanne Dokter-Mersch currently works as a Postdoc in the ERC funded project PURANA (101054849), studying the composition and the intertextuality of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications:

• 2021    Revealing Śiva’s Superiority by Retelling Viṣṇu’s Deeds: Viṣṇu’s Manifestation Myths in the Skandapurāṇa. Dissertation, Universiteit van Leiden
• 2021    The Skandapurāṇa. Volume V: Adhyāyas 96-112. The Varāha Cycle and Andhaka Cycle Continued. Critical Edition with an Introduction & Annotated English Synopsis by Peter C. Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, in cooperation with Sanne Dokter-Mersch and Judit Törzsök. Leiden: Brill
• 2020    ‘Visual Story-Telling in Text and Image: The Nāga as Inhabitant of the Ocean and the Netherworld’ in Den Boer, Lucas, and Elizabeth A. Cecil, red. Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia. Sources and Boundaries. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 51—74

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