Dillon Kelly

Research Interests:

• Indo-Iranian Historical Linguistics, Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian
• Indian Grammatical Traditions, Pāṇinian Linguistics, Sanskrit Poetics
• Historical Syntax, Generative Syntax in Classical Languages
• Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Semiotics
• Semitic Linguistics, Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Aramaic

Thesis:

The Poetics of Obfuscation: Linguistic Riddles and Enigmas in the Rigveda

Education:

BA Ancient Languages, University College London

Awards:

- Weitzmann Prize for Academic Achievement; Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL

- St. Cross Humanities MPhil Scholar; St. Cross College, University of Oxford