Jason D. Fuller is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Asian Studies Executive Steering Committee at DePauw. In 2005, Jason received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania where he pursued his graduate research in the departments of Religious Studies and South Asian Studies. Prior to his arrival at DePauw, Jason taught at Washington and Lee University. He lived in India for several years while conducting research.
Jason is a South Asianist who specializes in the study of Modern Hinduism. He is a historian of religions who has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Calcutta. He is the recipient of several grants for study and research in India from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of research interest include Gaudiya Vaishnavism and nineteenth-century Bengali history. His most recent publications include: “Modern Hinduism and the Middle Class: Beyond ‘Reform’ and ‘Revival’ in the Historiography of Colonial India,” Journal of Hindu Studies (November 2009); “Dreaded Monoliths: Rudolf Otto’s Das Heilige and 2001: A Space Odyssey,” Teaching Theology and Religion (January 2009); and “Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Colonialism and the Philosophia Perennis,” Journal of Vaishnava Studies (Spring 2008).
In addition to his research in the areas of South Asian history and culture, Jason has interests in methodological issues in the academic study of religion and the emerging field of religion and film. He uses a multi-medial, interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion in his courses, asking students to make connections between verbal and visual representations of religion.
Outside of his academic commitments, Jason pursues a variety of pastimes and enjoys traveling. Jason and his wife Rebekah, who is a writer and scholar of medieval English literature, travel frequently to England so that they can visit Oxford, Northwest Wales and Snowdonia. When Jason is not teaching, writing or doing archival research in the India Office Reading room at the British Library, he is often riding his Indian motorcycle on the back roads of rural Indiana. |
Asian Studies
