Elmar Josef Renner

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Teaching

• Hindi, Urdu, Early Modern Indoarian Varieties, Sanskrit
• Language and Literatures

Fields of interest

• language teaching and the didactics of Hindi / Urdu and South Asian languages
• (cognitive and pragmatic) linguistics of Hindi / Urdu and South Asian languages
• translation methodologies
• history of Hindi / Urdu literature (belles-lettres, film, religious literature)
• (mythological) symbols and tropes in South Asian discourses
• early modern literatures of Northern India and their historical contexts
• contemporary South Asian religious traditions and their history
• social history of South Asia
• literary traditions of the Maithili area