Emy recently completed her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Paravur Dialogues: A Debate between Four Religions in an Early Modern Garshuni Malayalam Manuscript from South India.
Emy received her BA in 2013, and MA in 2015, in English Language and Literature from the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), India. In 2017, she completed her MPhil in social sciences from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India, where she dealt with historical documents from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her thesis, “Authority and Power of Church: A Study of Church Manuscripts (1880- 1950),” explores authority and power relations in the institutional formation of the Syrian Christian church in Kerala.
In 2018, she continued her studies at CEU, where she earned another MA in Medieval Studies with focusing on the vernacular manuscripts of Syrian Christians. In her thesis, “Christian Manuscripts of Kerala (India): Revisiting Popular Histories of the Syrian Christians in the Early Modern Period,” she dealt with eighteenth-century vernacular (local Grantha) church histories to compare and identify the similarities, problems, and errors in translation, demanding a revision of the existing popular history of the Syrian Christian community.
Emy was a research fellow at the Center for Religious Studies in Ruhr University Bochum from May 2023- April 2024. The main aim of her research is to investigate the linguistic, literary, theological, historical, and socio-cultural aspects of a seventeenth century text in the context of the cross- cultural relationship between different communities, such as Jews, Christians, Muslims and Hindus in the early modern Kerala.
She won the 2025 Père Paul Scholarship for Eastern Christian Studies.
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