Hello everyone!
It’s time for an update! As most of you know, I’m an Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. I teach and do research in World, South Asian, and European History. Last year I completed a chapter manuscript on Richard Wagner’s interest in Buddhism for an edited volume that is not yet out. I also wrote a chapter a while ago on the German study of Buddhism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009), and I am teaching a course in Fall 2022 on ancient South Asia (India) with components on Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayanic forms of Buddhism.
If you are working on scholarship focusing on German-Asian connections, consider submitting a book proposal with Palgrave. I’m the Series Co-Editor, Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies (2020–): “It encourages the publication of works by specialists globally on the multi-faceted dimensions of ties between the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and German-speaking enclaves in Eastern Europe) and Asian countries over the past two centuries. Rejecting traditional notions of West and East as seeming polar opposites (e.g., colonizer and colonized), the volumes in this series attempt to reconstruct the ways in which Germans and Asians have cooperated and negotiated the challenge of modernity in various fields.”
A recent volume in the series that might be of interest is by Sebastian Musch, Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture: Between Moses and Buddha, 1890–1940 (New York: Palgrave, 2019). Please, feel free to check out this review. Looking forward to finding out more about Buddhist scholarship through this network. See you!
Doug McGetchin
International Network “Cultural Transformations of Buddhism” 