Sanne Dokter-Mersch
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. S. Dokter-Mersch
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8192
- s.mersch@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2904-7895
Sanne Dokter-Mersch is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.
More information about Sanne Dokter-Mersch
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
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Sep 2022 – today Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 |
Postdoc at Leiden University Institute of Area Studies, Leiden University Guest researcher at Leiden University Institute of Area Studies, Leiden University |
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Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 Mar 2018 – May 2018 Jan 2016 – Apr 2021 |
Lecturer Sanskrit 1 (BA) Guest researcher at Kyoto University PhD-candidate at Leiden University Institute of Area Studies, Leiden University |
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Sep 2011 – Aug 2013 |
Research Master ‘Area Studies: Asian Studies’ (cum laude), Leiden University and Universität Hamburg |
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Sep 2007 – Aug 2011 |
Bachelor ‘Comparative Indo-European Linguistics’, Leiden University |
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
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS India en Tibet
- Dokter S. (2024), Orality in a world of manuscripts: reconstructing Purāṇic composition, preservation and transmission on the basis of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa, Manuscript and Text Cultures 2(2): 201-223.
- Dokter-Mersch S. (2023), Viṣṇu’s Cakra as narrative weapon in the Skandapurāṇa: studies in the Skandapurāṇa XIV, Religions of South Asia 17(2): 164-182.
- Dokter S. (2022), A Śaiva happy ever after: Viṣṇu as Pāśupata ascetic: studies in the Skandapurāṇa X, Religions 13(12): 1-16.
- Dokter-Mersch S. (15 April 2021), Revealing Śiva’s superiority by retelling Viṣṇu’s deeds: Viṣṇu's manifestation myths in the Skandapurāṇa (Dissertatie. Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Bisschop P.C. & Yokochi Y.
- Bisschop P.C., Dokter-Mersch S., Törzsök J. & Yokochi Y. (Eds.) (2021), The Skandapurāṇa volume V: Adhyāyas 96-112. The Varāha cycle and the Andhaka cycle continued. Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement no. 6. Leiden: Brill.
- Dokter-Mersch S. (2020), Visual story-telling in text and image: the Nāga as inhabitant of the cosmic ocean and the netherworld. In: Boer L. den & Cecil E.A. (Eds.), Framing intellectual and lived spaces in early South Asia: sources and boundaries. Beyond Boundaries no. 2. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 51-74.
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