Elena Mucciarelli, M. Phil. in Classical Philology (University of Milan), Ph.D. in Indology (Universities of Tübingen and Turin, 2011), currently works at the University of Groningen as Gonda Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Hinduism in the Sanskrit Tradition. In pursuing her research on the intellectual, artistic and religious history of South India she adopts a holistic approach that integrates visual, written and oral sources. This approach is reflected in a multidisciplinary methodology combining philology, anthropology, textual analysis and media studies, which has led her to investigate types of ‘multimedia’ textuality hitherto left on the margins of academia. Her recent project studies the relationship between literary and oral song cultures.