FACULTY

Biography

Dr. Frances Garrett received her doctorate in Buddhist Studies in 2004 from the University of Virginia. She recently completed a publication, "Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet" (forthcoming from Routledge in 2008) that links aspects of Tibetan medicine to expressions of culture, religion, art and literature through a study of embryology in Tibetan literature. Her current research considers the intersections between tantric practice, ritual and occult knowledge and medical theory, and what these tell us about the processes of institutional and ideological change in Tibet. Dr. Garrett has been involved in digital humanities projects for the last decade, focusing mainly on various types of participation in the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (www.thdl.org). She has been Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion since 2003. Dr. Garrett was recently awarded a SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Grant (2009-2010) for a project entitled "Interpreting Visual Representations of Tibetan Ritual."