HDR      Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, INALCO, Paris, 20 octobre 2011

PhD      Semiotics, University of Bologna, Italy; supervisor Umberto Eco

MPhil  Linguistics, Agra University, India; supervisor B. P. Gupta

PhD      Hindi, Agra University, India; supervisor Vidya Niwas Mishra

MA       Linguistics, Agra University, India;

MA       Hindi, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India.

BA         Hindi Literature, Sociology, Political Sciences, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

2015-present               Professeur des universités (full Professor of Hindi), INALCO, Paris, France

2012-2015             1     Maître de Conférences, INALCO, Paris, France

2009-2009                  Maître de conférences invité, INALCO, Paris, France

2004-2007                  Contrattista di Hindi, University of Bologna, Italy

2000-2001                  Professore a contratto, University of Bologna, Italy

1998-1999                   Professore a contratto, University of Bologna, Italy

1987–2012                  Lettore di Hindi, University of Venice, Italy

1986-1987                   Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, worked with Umberto Eco at University of Bologna; Italy

1981-1986                   Tenured Researcher, Sociolinguistics Research Unit, Central Institute of Hindi, Agra, India

1980-1981                   Fixed-term Research Assistant, Agra University, India

1979-1980            Fixed-term Research Assistant, Agra University, India

2022                      Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, July–August.

2018                      Academic Visitor, Oriental Institute, Oxford University, July–August.

2017                      Academic Visitor, Oriental Institute, Oxford University, July–August.

2015                      Institute Affiliate at LSA institute, University of Chicago, USA. June-July.

2005                     Institute Affiliate at LSA institute, MIT, Cambridge, USA. June-July.

2003                     Institute Affiliate at LSA institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. June-July.