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Project Collaborator

James Nye

Director of the Digital South Asia Library University of Chicago

Biography

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James Nye, Director of the Digital South Asia Library and an associate of the Humanities Division, is the retired Bibliographer for Southern Asia. Trained as a classical Indologist with an emphasis on medieval Sanskrit literature, his most recent externally funded projects focus on dictionaries for South Asian languages, sonic and visual South Asia, and the Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art. He served for fifteen years as Director of the University’s South Asia Language and Area Centre and for three years as Director of the South Asia Language Resource Centre, both of which were U. S. National Resource Centers.

For more details on his work at the Digital South Asia Library, please visit his profile page.

Featured Project

Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive

2013 – 2014

Projects

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

This project explored the historical significance of South Asian artistic practices and the complex ways they helped shape local and transregional cultures.

Interwoven lays the foundations of a new paradigm for understanding movement, practice, materiality, and embodiment as constituting factors of social relations across long temporal arcs and geographic itineraries unbounded by national borders in the Indian Ocean region. The project...