CUTLER, Norman. Silver Spring Md. 10.5.1949 — Chicago 26.2.2002. U.S. Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of Sidney J. Cutler (1817–1993) and his wife Sylvia. Educated at University of Michigan (A.B.), University of Washington (M.A.) and from 1975 at University of Chicago (Ph.D. under A. K. Ramanujan). In the middle of the 1980s Assistant Professor at Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, then Associate Professor there until death. Specialized in Tamil language and devotional literature. Died after long illness.
Publications: “The devotee’s experience of the Sacred Tamil hymns”, Hist. of Rel. 24, 1984-85, 91-112; “Interpreting Tirukkural: the role of commentary in the creation of a text”, JAOS 112, 1992, 549-566; “Tamil Game Songs to Śiva”, Religions of India in Practice. 1995, 134-158; a few other articles.
– Songs of Experience: the Poetics of Tamil Devotion. 211 p. Bloomington 1987 (based on his diss.).
– Edited with P. Richman: A Gift of Tamil Translations from Tamil Literature in honor of K. Paramasivan. 6+151 p. Delhi 1992.
Sources: The University of Chicago Chronicle 21:12, March 2002; parents in ancestry.com.
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