Tejas Aralere

Tejas Aralere is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2023. He holds a PhD in Classics from UC Santa Barbara (2023) with a double emphasis in Literature and Theory and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and dual B.A./B.S. degrees in Latin and Neuroscience from William & Mary (2015).

His research has been supported by fellowships from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation (2025-2026) and the Center for Hellenic Studies (2025-2026). Recent publications include "Messalla as Osiris: Mark Antony, military might, and masculine fertility in Tibullus 1.7" in Time and Music, Thought and Feeling in Tibullus (Brill, 2025) and "Where did the Muses go? Writing, Consciousness, and the Greek Historians" in the Journal of Cognitive Historiography (2025). He is co-editor of Materiality of Jyotiṣa: Rethinking Traditional Boundaries of South Asian Astral Science (Brill, in progress) and serves on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religion's Mahābhārata Working Group.

During his time at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Aralere is a Visiting Research Scholar with the Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) research group, investigating intercultural transmission of astrological knowledge between ancient Rome and India. His research is rooted in Classics and its approach to the history of science, but expands to encompass South Asian astral sciences and engages with modern philosophy of science and medicine. This is part of his continuing work on his first monograph project titled, “Cosmic Embodiment: Astrological Melothesia in the Ancient Mediterranean and India.”

He looks forward to meeting with other research fellows and collaborating during his time at the Institute, so please reach out!