PROF. GABRIELA NIK. ILIEVA Ph.D. 2000, University of Minnesota Clinical Associate Professor, Hindi Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 tel: (212) 992-9623  fax: (212) 995-4689  e-mail: gni1@nyu.edu

Research interests: foreign Language pedagogy, gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, Medieval Indian poetics.  I have been working on foreign language instruction and the application of technology with its pedagogical implications.  Also, I have been involved in projects developing web-based teaching/learning materials in Hindi.  In the field of linguistics my primary research is on the pragmatics of politeness in Sanskrit and written Hindi discourse with focus on the language devices used to mitigate, hedge and redress meaning.  Furthermore, I am interested in the formulation of gender (self/)identity through language in Ancient Indian society. The third area of research is Medieval Indian poetics, namely the schools of alankaara (ornaments) and dhvani (suggested meaning) in comparison with Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetoric and some contemporary European literary theories.

• "The Rig Vedic hymn as a Ritual Speech Event: 10.39 from a Pragmatic Perspective" - Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Special Edition on Ritual, vol.4, Number 2
• "Common Representations of Women and Men in the Rig Veda" - South Asian Women Studies Journal, Vol.9, Number 1
• "Modular Learning: New Pedagogical Contexts (Hindi classroom examples)" - World Congress of Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, Paris, France (Link)
• "On the Origin of the Ergative" - Sagar South Asian Research Journal, vol.4 #2 (Link)

Current Projects

• Virtual Hindi

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