Charles Hallisey
Contact Information
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
- Buddhist Ethics (Fall 2014)
- Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and Their Critical Interpretations (Spring 2014)
- Introduction to Buddhist Narrative and Story Literature (Fall 2015)
- Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies and their Critical Interpretations (Fall 2014)
- Introduction to Buddhist Scriptures and Their Critical Interpretation (Fall 2013)
- Modern Buddhism and Fiction (Fall 2013)
- Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion (Spring 2014)
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