Profile
Professional career
- since 04/2023
Research Fellow, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, PI of the DFG/AHRC-funded project "Divergent Discourses" - since 10/2022
Research fellow; interim for the professorship of Tibetology, Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig - 07/2017 - 11/2021
Research Fellow, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, PI of the DFG-funded project "Secular Life Writing" - 01/2019 - 06/2019
departmental lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Oriental Institute, Oxford University - 10/2016 - 07/2017
Junior Research Fellow in Tibetan & Himalayan Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University
Education
- 07/2015 - 09/2016
post-doc in the Research Academy Leipzig (RAL) class "Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics" - 10/2010 - 06/2015
PhD programme in the DFG graduate school "Religous Nonkonformism and cultural Dynamics"
- Divergent Discourses: Processes of Narrative Construction in Tibet, 1955-62Erhard, Franz XaverDuration: 04/2023 – 03/2026Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Andere ausländische öffentliche ForschungsfördererInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
- Secular Life Writing in Early Modern Tibet. A Study of Kalon Tenzin Paljor's Autobiography "Music of Candid Speech"Erhard, Franz XaverDuration: 07/2016 – 11/2021Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
- Erhard, F. X.; Wild, T.Drumze. Metamorphoses of the Tibetan CarpetPPotsdam: edition tethys. 2022.ISBN: 978-3-942527-16-2
- Erhard, F. X.; Galli, L. (Eds.)The Selfless Ego. Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life WritingNew York: Routledge. 2021.ISBN: 9780367693985
- Erhard, F. X.Magical Realism and Tibetan LiteratureIn: Venturino , S. J.; Ramble, C. (Eds.)Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Leiden: Brill. 2007. pp. 133–146.
- Erhard, F. X.Text and Layout Recognition for Tibetan Newspapers with TranskribusRevue d'études tibétaines (RET). 2025. pp. 128–171.
- Erhard, F. X.A Digital Collection of Early Tibetan Newspapers from the 1950s and 1960sRevue d'études tibétaines (RET). 2025. pp. 44–80.
- Internationale Konferenz4th International Seminar of Young TibetologistsZentralasienwissenschaft (Tibetologie/Mongolistik)Event Organiser: Erhard, Franz Xaver; Sörensen, Per Kjeld07/09/2015 – 12/09/2015