Barbara Stoler Miller
Barbara Stoler Miller (August 8, 1940 – April 19, 1993) was a scholar of
Biography
Born in
The department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College in New York City was the site of her floreat; she was made an Assistant Professor in 1968, and promoted to a full Professor from 1977 before being made the departmental head in 1979. Following her promotion in 1979, Dr. Miller was awarded the Award in Higher Education by the National Council of Women. In 1983 she was made the Samuel R. Milbank Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. As part of her research, Miller frequently traveled to India.[1]
Miller edited and translated many works of Sanskrit poetry and drama. These included Bhartrihari: Poems (1967), Phantasies of a Love-Thief: The Caurapancasika Attributed to Bilhana (1971), Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda (1977), The Hermit and the Love-Thief: Sanskrit Poems of Bhartrihari and Bilhana (1978), Theatre of Memory: The Plays of Kalidasa (1984, with Edwin Gerow and David Gitomer) and The Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (1986). All of these texts were published by
In addition to her major translations, Miller wrote a number of articles and edited several books, including Explaining India's Sacred Art: Selected Writings of Stella Kramrisch (1983), a work of dedicated to her former teacher; and Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India (1985), a book of essays by
Miller was an active and powerful presence in shaping the future direction of Barnard and Columbia. She served on the executive committee of the Southern Asian Institute at the School of International Affairs, was president of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and was the co-director of the Barnard Centennial Scholars Program, and was part of the editorial board of the Columbia University Press series of Translations from the Oriental Classics. She nurtured many students and fought strongly to ensure that their talents were rewarded and encouraged by grants and research posts. At a time when female scholars were still very much in the minority, Miller was trailblazer. She served on the P.E.N. Translation Committee, as Director-at-Large of the
During the final months of her life, she continued to work from her hospital bed, finishing her translation and analysis of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which was published posthumously as Yoga: Discipline of Mind and Spirit.
She died in New York’s
Books
Translations
- Barbara Stoler Miller (transl.); Barry Moser (illus.) (1986), The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's counsel in time of war, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-06468-2
- Bilhaṇa; Barbara Stoler Miller (transl.) (1971), Phantasies of a love-thief: the Caurapañcāśikā attributed to Bilhaṇa, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-03451-7
- Jayadeva; Barbara Stoler Miller (transl.) (1977), Love song of the dark lord: Jayadeva's Gītagovinda, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-11097-6
- Patañjali; Barbara Stoler Miller (transl.) (1996), Yoga: discipline of freedom: the Yoga Sutra attributed to Patanjali; a translation of the text, with commentary, introduction, and glossary of keywords, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-20190-3
- Barbara Stoler Miller, ed. (1984), Theater of memory: the plays of Kālidāsa, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-05838-4
- Barbara Stoler Miller (transl.) (1977), Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Song of the Dark Lord, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., ISBN 978-81-208-0367-1
Other
- Barbara Stoler Miller (1993), Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective: a guide for teaching, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 978-1-56324-258-8
References
- ISBN 978-0-553-21365-2.
- JSTOR 2058944
- ^ "Barbara Stoler Miller; Professor, 52", The New York Times, 20 April 1993, retrieved 16 April 2013
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