Contact Information:
Email: mdexter@ucla.edu
Department: Department of Women's Studies
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall - UCLA - Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504

Classes:

• WS M128/Honors M118: The Roots of Patriarchy: Ancient Goddesses and Heroines, Fall, 2011
• Links to Classes, 1999-2010:

Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests (See also CSW): I translate ancient Indo-European (Greek, Italic, Sanskrit, Old Iranian, Old Norse, Old Irish, Hittite, Lithuanian, Latvian) and Near Eastern (Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Egyptian) texts, studying and comparing the functions and powers of female figures. Presently, my focus of interest is on goddesses and heroines who are perform a magical, sacred display of their genitals; they are often both erotic and ferocious: Greek Medusa, Indic Kali, Indic Lajja Gauri figures in temples, Irish Sheela na gigs and female figures in text, and Sumerian Ereshkigal. I am also looking at particular types of erotic (display) and ferocious figures, including prehistoric 'frog' figures.  I am also researching Indus Valley seals, and the relationships of female figures on these seals to historic age Indic goddesses.>

Publications

Links to Books:

Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia - Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair

Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book

The Living Goddesses (Edited work of Marija Gimbutas)

The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe (Edited articles of Marija Gimbutas)

Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas (Edited)

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 1997 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 1998 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2000 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2001 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2002 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2003 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2004 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference Los Angeles, 2005 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2006 (Edited)

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2007 (Edited)