Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Sloane Geddes is International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Classics and at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. She is a scholar of early medieval Sanskrit poetry, and her research focuses  on Sanskrit courtly poetry and the cultural worlds in which they were produced. Her current research examines the religious, aesthetic, and affective ends of description-based poetry in an erudite Sanskrit poem known as the Kapphiṇābhyudaya or, The Rise of Kapphiṇa. Alongside this research, which will be the prime focus of her time at Brown, her broader interests include gender and sexuality, literary aesthetics, affect studies, and the materiality and history of Sanskrit manuscripts. She is especially interested in birch bark manuscripts produced in Kashmir and has previously supported the research, conservation, and recontextualization of several manuscripts held in North American collections. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto and holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia.