12 Facts About Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty was born on November 20, 1940 and is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades.

Wendy Doniger's is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has taught there since 1978.

Wendy Doniger's served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1998.

Wendy Doniger was born in New York City to immigrant non-observant Jewish parents, and raised in Great Neck, New York, where her father, Lester L Doniger, ran a publishing business.

Wendy Doniger holds the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Chair in History of Religions at the University of Chicago.

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Wendy Doniger's is the editor of the scholarly journal History of Religions, having served on its editorial board since 1979, and has edited a dozen other publications in her career.

Wendy Doniger's serves on the International Editorial Board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Wendy Doniger's was invited to give the 2010 Art Institute of Chicago President's Lecture at the Chicago Humanities Festival, which was titled, "The Lingam Made Flesh: Split-Level Symbolism in Hindu Art".

Since she began writing in the 1960s, Wendy Doniger has gained the reputation of being "one of America's major scholars in the humanities".

Wendy Doniger is a scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions.

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, concurring with Novetzke, adds that while the agenda of those in the American Hindu community who criticize Wendy Doniger appears similar to that of the Hindu right-wing in India, it is not quite the same since it has "no overt connection to national identity", and that it has created feelings of guilt among American scholars, given the prevailing ethos of ethnic respect, that they might have offended people from another culture.

Wendy Doniger has written 16 books, translated with commentary nine other volumes, has contributed to many edited texts and has written hundreds of articles in journals, magazines and newspapers.