Faculty

Antonia Ruppel is a Classicist by training who came to Sanskrit through a series of fortunate accidents. She learnt the language as an autodidact, and one of her reasons for writing her textbook, The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (2017), was to make the experience of studying Sanskrit easier and more pleasant for others. She has recently published the followup volume, An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency (2021), designed to help students gain reading fluency in an enjoyable and straightforward way.

Language pedagogy is at the heart of her life. She has been teaching Sanskrit for 15 years at universities such as Cornell, Oxford the LMU in Munich, Germany, and now online at Yogic Studies.

Courses taught: 

• SKT 101 | Elementary Sanskrit I
• SKT 102 | Elementary Sanskrit II
• SKT 103 | Elementary Sanskrit III
• SKT 201 | Intermediate Sanskrit I
• SKT 202 | Intermediate Sanskrit II
• SKT 203 | Intermediate Sanskrit III
• SKT 501 | Sanskrit Graduate Seminar

Selected Publications: 

• 2021. An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency. Brill.
• 2017. The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit. Cambridge University Press.
• 2012. Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European. Cambridge University Press.