Charles Hallisey

Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures

Contact Information

challisey@hds.harvard.edu
617.384.7872
Andover 308
Robin Lee
rlee@hds.harvard.edu
617.496.8508

On Leave

  • Fall term 2011

Education

  • AB, Colgate University
  • MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
  • MA, University of Pennsylvania
  • PhD, University of Chicago

Profile

Charles Hallisey joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2007–08 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious Studies Program since 2001. Earlier, he taught in the Department of Theology at Loyola University in Chicago, and at Harvard University, where he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies from 1996 to 2001. His research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled "Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka."

Current and Future Courses