• Indological Studies: (a) Sanskrit and Tamil grammatical traditions, in particular phonetics and phonology; (b) Linguistic and literary interplay between Sanskrit and Tamil, in particular editions of ‘Late Tamil Manipravalam’ texts; (c) Colophons in manuscripts written in Tamilian Grantha and Tamil scripts.
• Manuscript Studies / History of the Book: (a) Critical reflection on the concept of “paratext” applied to manuscript studies; (b) Organisation of knowledge as reflected in multiple-text and composite manuscripts. (c) Pothi manuscript cultures, with a particular focus on palm-leaf manuscripts, including their cultural and material aspects.
• History of Linguistics: Adoption and adaptation of Sanskrit grammatical terminology and models into the Tamil grammatical tradition and Modern Western linguistics.
