Occasional papers presented at the Tamil Studies Group, University of Chicago

Constantine V. Nakassis. “Hybrid performativities, English use, and youth peer groups in Tamil Nadu, India.” November 11, 2011. (Published in Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Gaya Embuldeniya. “Tigers, Evangelicals, and Bolsheviks: Heterotopic space and its limits at the Tamil Protests in Toronto.” December 2, 2011.

Whitney Cox. “From Source-Criticism to Intellectual History in the Poetics of the Medieval Tamil country.” February 2, 2012. (Published in Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani, eds. Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India. Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2013)

E. Annamalai. “Semantic Shift: The Encounter of Tamil with Sanskrit.” February 24, 2012.

Constantine V. Nakassis. ““Suspended Kinship and Youth Sociality in Tamil Nadu, India.” March 2, 2012. (Published in Current Anthropology 55(2):175–199, 2014)

Krissy Roghan. “The Verse in Conversion: Revising Vīramāmunivār.” April 25, 2012.

Julie Hanlon. “Poetics and Politics: Kingship and Authority in the Puṟanāṉūṟu.” May 12, 2012.

Malarvizhi Jayanth. “Caste and the personal narrative in Madras Presidency.”June 1, 2012.

Constantine V. Nakassis. “From English to Tamil in Music Television.” October 19, 2012. (Published in Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, University of Chicago Press, 2016)