James L. Fitzgerald

James L. Fitzgerald is an Indologist at Brown University. He studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his B.A. in 1971, his M.A. in Sanskrit in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and South Asian Civilizations in 1980. At Chicago he studied primarily with J. A. B. van Buitenen. From 1978 Fitzgerald joined the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. In 2007 he was appointed Purandara Das Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Classics, Brown University.

Fitzgerald's main research interest has been India's great Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata, see Mahabharata.

The Mahabharata: Book 11: The Book of the Women, Book 12: The Book of Peace, Part One. Translated, edited, and annotated by James L. Fitzgerald. 848 p., 1 halftone, 1 map, 4 charts, 7 tables. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

The Mahabharata: Book 12: The Book of Peace, Part Two. Translated, edited, and annotated by James L. Fitzgerald. Chicago: University of Chicago.

1981 Edited the posthumous publication of J. A. B. van Buitenen’s The Bhagavad Gītā in the Mahābhārata (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).

In press, 2009 “The Sāṃkhya-Yoga “Manifesto” at MBh 12.289-290,” in proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, John Brockington, ed. (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass): 185-212.

In press, 2009 “A Preliminary Study of the 681 Triṣṭubh Passages of the Mahābhārata,” in proceedings of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Robert Goldman and Muneo Tokunaga, editors (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, in press): 95-117.

In press, 2009 “No Contest between Memory and Invention: The Invention of the Pāṇḍava Heroes of the Mahābhārata,” in the proceedings volume of the conference “Epic and History: Ancient and Medieval,” Brown University, December, 2006.

2007 “Bhīṣma beyond Freud: The Fall of the Sky, Bhīṣma in the Mahābhārata, 1,” in Epic Constructions: Gender, Myth, and Society in the Mahābhārata, edited by Brian Black and Simon Brodbeck (London: Routledge, 2007): 189-207.

2006 “Negotiating the Shape of ‘Scripture’: New Perspectives on the Development and Growth of the Epic Between the Empires,” in Between the Empires, edited by Patrick Olivelle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 257-87.

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