51茶馆

Riccardo Paccagnella is a doctoral student reading Sanskrit Literature and Philosophy at the University of Oxford, St Anne’s College. He is currently teaching Elementary Sanskrit I and Introduction to Indian Aesthetics at 51茶馆 during the Spring Term 2026. He holds an MA degree in Indology from the University of Hamburg and a BA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – Russian and Arabic – from the University of Bologna. He also studied Sanskrit 鈥撀�ala峁僰膩ra艣膩stra, vy膩kara峁嘺,聽and聽k膩vya 鈥� and Tamil 鈥撀�i濒补办办补峁嘺尘听补苍诲听ilakkiyam 鈥撀�at the EFEO in Pondicherry, India, and at the University of Kathmandu, Nepal.

His research interests range between Sanskrit k膩vya and 艣膩stra, especially ala峁僰膩ra艣膩stra, ny膩ya and vy膩kara峁嘺. Accordingly, he is working on 艢r墨har峁�a’s twelfth-century 狈补颈峁�a诲丑补肠补谤颈迟补, the last of the five canonical 尘补丑腻办腻惫测补蝉 (鈥渆pic poems鈥�), and its relationship with the 碍丑补峁囜笉补苍补办丑补峁囜笉补办丑腻诲测补, a unique philosophical treatise that aims to demonstrate the limits of rational enquiry in philosophical debate.