Dr Richard Barz
Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Senior Lecturer, South Asia Centre |
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Qualifications
- 1971, Ph.D. University of Chicago; Ph.D. thesis, 'Early developments within the bhakti sect of Vallabhacarya according to sectarian traditions'
- 1967, M.A. University of Chicago; M.A. thesis, 'The Braj Bhasha biographies of three 16th century poets: Surdasa, Khumbhanadasa and Paramanandadasa, followers of the Vaishnava philosopher Vallabhacarya'
- 1963, B.A. University of Arizona; Major field: Oriental Studies
Research
January 1991 to present - Production of distance education package for introductory Hindi as a part of the National Asian Languages Project. (Australian government funded)
January 1996 to present - Analysis of the Islamic Avadhi terminology in Manjhan's Madhumalati. Filming and editing of video-taped description of the Himalayan Hindu pilgrimages to Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri-Gomukh and Yamunotri in Uttaranchal, India.
Present Appointments
- Senior Lecturer in Hindi, South Asian Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australian National University
Previous Appointments
- January 1972 to present, Senior Lecturer in Hindi, South Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- February 1986 to December 1990, Associate, Department of Indian and Indonesian Studies, University of Melbourne (concurrently with position at the A ustralian National University)
- June 1971 to January 1972, Lecturer in Hindi, University of California at Berkeley
- September 1969 to June 1971, Assistant Professor of Hindi, California State University at Long Beach
- October 1968 to June 1969, Teaching Intern in Indian Civilization, University of Chicago
Supervision - Teaching experience
University of Chicago - participated in the teaching of the introductory course in Indian civilizationCalifornia State University at Long Beach - established and taught, with the aid of an assistant, the Hindi course at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels; established and taught courses in Indian religions and in Indian literature in translationUniversity of California at Berkeley - taught Hindi at the intermediate level; organized, and conducted in Hindi, advanced classes in modern and pre-modern Hindi literatureAustralian National University - established and taught, with the aid of a Senior Tutor, the Hindi course at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels; established and taught, with the aid of a Senior Tutor, the Urdu course at intermediate and advanced levels; organized and conducted (in Hindi) advanced courses in the Hindi literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in the contemporary Hindi short story and novel; organized and conducted (in Hindi) courses in pre-modern Avadhi and Brajbhasha prose and poetry, including courses in the mixed Panjabi-Brajbhasha poetry of Guru Nanak in Gurmukhi script and in the mixed Rajasthani-Brajbhasha poetry of Mirabai; organized and conducted (in Urdu) courses in the Urdu ghazal in the Urdu script, with particular attention to the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir and Bahadur Shah "Zafar", in the ghazal in Dakkhini Urdu, in nineteenth century Urdu prose and in the twentieth century Urdu short story; participated in the teaching of courses in Indian literature (including postcolonial literature), religion, anthropology, history and civilizationUniversity of Melbourne - re-established, and had academic responsibility for, the three-year Hindi course; assisted a Senior Tutor with the conducting of the course and at regular intervals personally taught in the course at introductory, intermediate and advanced levelsAustralian National University Applied Hindi Course - devised, established and had academic responsibility for the Australian National University intensive summer Applied Hindi Course offered (1990-present) in India (Bulandshahr, Bhim Tal, Udaipur and Allahabad) with full academic credit; personally conducted the course, together with an Urdu component, in Lucknow in January-February 1991La Trobe University - assisted, as Visiting Fellow, between 1990 and 1994 with the establishment of a three-year course in Hindi; advised a Senior Tutor in the conducting of the course and at regular intervals personally taught in the course at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels; helped the Senior Tutor in Hindi with the organisation of an Applied Hindi course conducted in India to be offered concurrently with the Australian National University's Applied Hindi courseAarhus University, Arhus, Denmark- invited to be Guest Lecturer in Aarhus University's Hindi courses at the Beginning, Second Year and Third Year levels from 1 January to 1 July, 1995
Publications
Books
- The bhakti sect of Vallabhacarya Richard K. Barz, Thomson Press, Faridabad (1976)
- An introduction to Hindi and Urdu Richard K. Barz, Faculty of Asian Studies, A.N.U., Canberra 1977, (second revised edition 1986, third edition 1989) (1989)
- Contemporary Hindi reader Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Faculty of Asian Studies, A.N.U., Canberra (1978)
- Language transplanted: the development of overseas Hindi Otto Harrasowitz, Richard K. Barz and J. Siegel (eds.), Wiesbaden (1988)
- Living texts from India Otto Harrasowitz, Richard K. Barz and M. Thiel-Horstmann (eds.), Wiesbaden (1989)
- An introduction to Hindi and Urdu Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Faculty of Asian Studies, A.N.U., Canberra, (fourth revised edition) (1991)
- The bhakti sect of Vallabhacarya Munshiram Manoharlal, Richard K. Barz, New Delhi, (reprint) (1992)
- An introduction to Hindi and Urdu Munshiram Manoharlal, Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, New Delhi,(fifth edition) (1993)
- Hindi Exercise Manual Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Canberra (1994)
- Hindi Exercise Manual Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav, Set of Audio Cassette Recordings, Canberra (1994)
Book Chapters
- Kumbhandas: The Devotee as Salt of the Earth in Krishna: A Sourcebook ed. E.F. Bryant, Oxford University Press, New York, pp.477-504 (2007)
Journal Articles
- The physical environment as a stimulant in the literature of Hinduism in Living with Nature ed. J. Nurser, Centre for Continuing Education, Canberra (1973)
- The poetry of Guru Nanak, Desh Videsh in Journal of the India-Australia Association of Canberra, I:3, pp 15-18 (January 1977)
- Hinduism- the Hindu way of life in Bulletin of Christian Life 74, pp 1-19 (:August 1977)
- The cultural significance of Hindi in Mauritius in South Asia , N.S. III:1, pp.1-13 (June 1980)
- Computer assistance in the teaching of Hindi in Bringing Computers in College and University Teaching ed. A. Miller and J. Ogilvie, Organisation for Research in Academic Methods, Canberra, pp.25-30 (1980)
- A beginning in prose: some steps in the emergence of modern Hindi literature in South Asia N.S. V, pp.5-15 (June 1982)
- Document production in Hindi and Thai via a software man-machine interface in Journal of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Richard K. Barz, J. Millar and A. Diller, 30:6, pp.162-167 (1984)
- Hindi in Australian South Asia Association Review 8:3, pp 9-11 (April 1985)
- Classifiers and standardisation: some South and South-East Asian comparisons in Language Policy, Language Planning and Sociolinguistics in South-East Asia Richard K. Barz and A. Diller, ed. D. Bradley, Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra, pp.155-184 (1985)
- Foreword in The establishment and cultivation of modern standard Hindiin Mauritius L.P.Ramyead,Mahama Gandhi Institute, Moka (Mauritius), pp. xi-xii
- Indian immigration and Hindi literature in Mauritius in Journal of Mauritian Studies I:1, pp.57-89 (1986)
- Krshnadas Adhikari: an irascible devotee's approach to the divine in Journal of Comparative Sociology and Religion 14:1987, pp. 35-54. Reprinted with minor editorial changes in Bhakti studies, ed, G. Bailey and I. Kesarkodi Watson. Sterling Press, New Delhi:1992, pp 236-250 (1992)
- Vallabhacarya in Encyclopedia of Religion ed. M. Eliade, New York, pp.183-184 (1987)
- Language maintenance and literary use: the case of Mauritian Bhojpuri, Sarnami and Fiji Hindi in Language transplanted: the development of overseas Hindi eds. R. Barz and J. Siegel, Otto Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, pp 197-220 (1988)
- Brahma-Kumari's: vrouwen aan de (spirituele) macht in Inforient Richard K.Barzand H.Pauwels, 8:1, pp.17-24 (1988)
- Introduction in Living texts from India Richard K. Barz and M. Thiel-Horstmann, eds. R. Barz and M. Thiel-Horstmann, Otto Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, pp 1-6 (1989)
- The prince and the vizir's son in Living texts from India Richard K. Barz and Y.K. Yadav,eds. R.Barz and M.Thiel-Horstmann, Otto Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, pp.103-140 (1989)
- Hindi since independence in India: creating a modern nation ed. J. Masselos, Manohar, New Delhi, pp.95-110 (1990)
- Free will in the Ramayan of Bhanubhak in Ramayana and Ramayanas ed. M.Thiel-Horstmann, Otto Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, pp.29-46 (1991)
- A reinterpretation of Vaishnava theology: from the pushtimarg to the Brahma Kumaris in Devotional literature in South Asia ed. R.S. McGregor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.298-313 (1992)
- The Caurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta and the hagiography of the Pushtimarg in According to tradition eds. W.M. Callewaert and R. Snell, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, pp.43-64 (1994)
- Satyajit Ray, Premchand and a game of chess: variations on the theme of India's freedom in South Asia XXI: 1, pp.153-166 (1998)
- Mathura janmashtmi, 1967 in Unfinished Journeys: India File from Canberra eds. Debjani Ganguly and Kavita Nandan, Centre for Research in New Literatures in English, Adelaide, pp.219-230 (1998)
- हिन्दी क्यों सीखना in Humaara Bhavish 1, pp.18-19 (November 2003)
Film
- Year-in-India at Aligarh Muslim University written and produced in Hindi and English by Richard Barz and edited by Paul Maclay for the Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra (2006).
- गंगोत्री-गोमुख की यात्रा written and produced in Hindi with English subtitles by Richard Barz and edited by Patrick Byrnes and Paul Maclay for the Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra (2005).
Poetry
- Sonnet of Stone and Sand in Young America sings ed Dennis Hartman, National High School Poetry Association, Los Angeles, p. 20 (1959); reprinted in Songs of youth, American Poetry Society, Los Angeles, p. 41 (1960)
- King Solomon's Turtle in Young America sings ed Dennis Hartman, National High School Poetry Association, Los Angeles, p. 17 (1960)
- प्रतिध्वनि in Devanagari: Hindi Niketan ki Patrika p. 19 (1992)
Webpages
- Hindi Language Studies The aim of the Hindi course is to provide students with the skills necessary to communicate in spoken Hindi as well as to read a wide range of materials written in Hindi, including novels, newspapers and scholarly works
Research experience (funded by grants or fellowships)
- October 1966 to May 1968: India (Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and the city of Bombay): research in the history and Sanskrit and Brajbhasha literature of the Vallabh sect of Vai+avas
- December 1977 to February 1978: Mauritius: research on Mauritian Bhojpuri
- February 1978 to January 1979: Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Turkey: consultations with Hindi and Urdu scholars; India (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Bihar) and Nepal: research into contemporary Vaiava religious life
- November 1983 to April 1984: India (Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh): research in Avadhi language and folk literature
- April 1984 to June 1984: Poland and Germany: consultations with Hindi scholars
- November 1987 to February 1988: India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan): research in Brajbhasha manuscript literature; research in Brahma Kumari (Raja Yoga) history and theology
- January 1990 to February 1990: U.S.S.R.: visiting fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow and Leningrad
- December 1990 to February 1991: India (Uttar Pradesh): development of teaching materials in Hindi and Urdu related to the history of Lucknow
- Dec 1991 to Feb 1992: U.S.A. and Canada: consultations with Hindi scholars and participation in Hindi and other Indian Studies seminars with students and staff at several universities
- October to November 2001: Filming of and research on the Gangotri-Gomukh Hindu pilgrimage in Uttaranchal, India
- June-July 2003: Filming of and research on the Gangotri-Gomukh, Badrinath and Kedarnath Hindu pilgrimages in Uttaranchal, India
Research experience (privately funded)
- December 1976 to January 1977: Fiji: research in Fiji Hindi
- December 1989: Malaysia: research in ancient and modern Indian cultural influences
- November to December 1990: Indonesia: research in ancient and modern Indian cultural influences in Java, Bali and Lombok
- December 1991 and February 1992: Fiji: research in Indo-Fijian culture
- January 1995 to January 1996- : U.S.A. and Europe: Research on the life and Urdu poetry of Sirajuddin Bahadur Shah "Zafar"
Memberships
- 1975-1979: Faculty of Asian Studies Publications Committee Secretary, Australian National University
- 1979-1980, 1983-1984, 1990-1992: Chairman of the South Asia Committee, Australian National University
- 1986 to 1994: Head of the South Asia Centre, Australian National University member of the Board of the Faculties
- 1986 to 1994: Member of the Board of the Faculties, Australian National University
- 1993-1994, 1996: National Centre for South Asian Studies- appointed by the Australian National University to be its representative on the Centre's governing Board,and elected by the Board to the position of Languages Co-ordinator for the National Centre, 1993 to present
- 1983: Australian National University official representative at the Third World Hindi Conference in New Delhi