Academic interests
- South Asian civilizations, continuity and change, diversity and coexistence;
- traditional knowledge systems, social practices of transmission and organization;
- ritual, performance and spectacle in religious traditions;
- cultural history of the book, history of print, literary cultures and anthropology;
- circulation of cultural objects and diffusion of ideas;
- memory, manuscript and print cultures, new media;
- colonial and postcolonial studies, history of modernity.
Selected publications
- 2015, Żyjące biblioteki Indii: Rygweda braminów Nambudiri, Kraków.
- 2015, Anxiety and Innovation: on denial of sacrifice in Vedic ritual, in: The Ambivalence of Denial, U. Simon, U. Huesken, (eds.), Wissbaden (in press).
- 2014, A Socio-Textual Ecology of the Rgvedadaśagrantha, in: Rethinking Western India. The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion, D. Deak, D. Jasper (eds.), Delhi.
- 2012, Texts and Communities: the manuscripts of the lost Yāmalāstakatantra, in: Aspects in Manuscript Culture in South India, S. Rath (ed.), Leiden.
- 2011, La mémoire et l'oubli: La mémorisation du Rgveda chez les Nambudiri du Kerala, in: Lieux de Savoir II –Les mains de l'intellect, C. Jacob (ed.), Paris.
- 2011, Inscribing Scripture through Ritual: On the Ritual Cycle of Trisandhā, in: Ritual Dynamics: Grammar and Morphology of Rituals in South Asia, A. Michaels et al. (eds.), Wissbaden.
- 2011, ‘Let Śiva's favour be alike with scribes and with reciters:' Motifs for copying or not copying the Veda, in: Veda,Vedanga and Avesta between Orality and Writing. Travaux de Symposium Int. Le Livre..., F. Rotaru (ed.), Bucharest.
- 2011, Text Divisions and Early Classifications of Knowledge in Literary and Epistemic Cultures of South Asia, Kraków.
- 2010, A Commentator in Service of the Empire: Sāyaṇa and the Royal Project of Commenting on the Whole of the Veda, Wien.
Research projects
- 2012/05/B/HS2/04103 „Lands of memory, kingdoms of ink, empires of print: Vedic ars memorativa and traditional knowledge system at the turn of the centuries";
- 0031/H01/2003/25 „Living libraries. Transmission of sacred texts and problems of coexistence of religions and cultures: the Rigveda of Nambudiri brahmins";
- 3221/B/H03/2008/34 „Books and Learned Communities: Yāmala-aṣṭaka-tantra and the transmission of the Decalogue of the Rigveda";
- "Les Mondes Letrés" (EHESS, Paris).
Other achievements
- visiting professor in EHESS, Paris.