- Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies, Jadavpur University
- M. Phil. in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Calcutta
- M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Calcutta
- B.A. in English Literature (Honours), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
Performance and Ecology, Performance and Social Change/Justice, Applied and Participatory Theatre, Grassroots and Community Performance, Indigenous Performance Practices, Dalit Theatre, Gender and Performance
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Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, since July 2026
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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (University of Calcutta), from May 2017 to June 2026
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Henry Luce Foundation Registration Grant, April 2025
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Conference Bursary, AAS-in-Asia and SIDA, May 2025, October 2024, and September 2022
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Charles Wallace Research Grant, CWIT, British Council, October 2023
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Asian Graduate Student Fellowship, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, June 2023
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Research Fellowship, Earth System Governance Project, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, January 2023
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John McGrath Scholarship, SUISS, University of Edinburgh, UK, August 2021
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Summer School Grant, Shanghai Theatre Academy, China, May 2018
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Conference Bursary, Asian Theatre Working Group, IFTR, April 2016
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Books edited/co-authored
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The Grassroots Play: People, Place, and Performance in Indian Theatre, edited (forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2026)
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Scripting Dalit Resistance: Selected Plays of Raju Das, coedited (forthcoming from Routledge in 2026)
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The Incandescent Classroom: Essays in Honour of Professor Satyaki Pal (co-edited), Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, January 2023 (1st Edition) and December 2023 (2nd Edition)
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Chinese Opera (in Bangla, co-authored), Kolkata: Dhansere, January 2023.
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Theatre Practice: Text and Performance, Interpretation and Experimentation, edited, Kolkata: Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (JUSAS), November 2018.
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“Performing Care, Empathy, and Resilience: Eladidi in Grassroots India” in Studies in Theatre and Performance (forthcoming)
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“Participatory Performance of Environmental Justice in M Sudhir Selvaraj’s We All Live in Bhopal” in South Asian Review (forthcoming)
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“Community Kinship, Species Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in Salmon Is Everything and Sila” (under review)
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“The Ecospirituality of Vedic/Indigenous Ontology: Towards a Sustainable Eco-epistemology,” in Environmental Humanities and the Global South: Perspectives for Ecological Justice, ed. Sopan Shinde (forthcoming from IIAS, Shimla)
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“The Biopiracy of Indigenous Ethnomedicinal Knowledge in India: Extractions, Injustices, and Possibilities” in Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, June 2026, DOI: 10.18805/IJARe.A-6520.
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“The Political Ecology of Adi Ganga: Environmental Governance of an Urban River in Kolkata, India” in Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities (Chiang Mai University Press), vol. 5, issue 2, 101-119, 2025.
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“Ecology, Performance, and Activism in Badungduppa Theatre in Assam, India,” in Asian Theatre Journal (University of Hawai’i Press), vol. 42, issue 2, 333—350, 2025. DOI: 10.1353/atj.2025.a968805.
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“Ecological Training for Ecological Healing: Performer’s Training in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Theatre of the Earth,” Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Routledge), 2025, vol. 16, issue 2, 266—281. DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2025.2515040.
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“Patnaik’s Cyco Theatre in India: Grassroots Environmental and Gender Activism,” in Applied Theatre and Gender Justice: Imagination, Play, Movement, ed. Lisa S Brenner and Evelyn D Cruz, Routledge, December 2024, pp. 22-32. DOI: 10.4324/9781003341802-4.
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“Mediating Resilience through Folk Ecology: To Poydom as a Rabha Drama,” in Vidyasagar University Journal of the Department of English, 2024, vol. 17, pp. 134-143.
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“Bhimrao Ambedkar: A Pioneer Extraordinaire” (translation), in Anthology of Dalit Plays, ed. Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis (Kaunas University of Technology Press, Lithuania, January 2024).
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Review of Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theatre by Theresa J. May, Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press), vol 48, issue 1, March 2023. DOI: 10.1017/S0307883322000475.
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“Silence as the Rhetoric of Resistance in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Theatre Practice.” Shodhkosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 2022, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 252-258.