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Bishnupriya Dutt

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

School of Arts & Aesthetics

Room No

002, SAA-I

Off. Phone

011-26704689

Residence

09873206251

pia_dutt[at]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, duttbishnupriya[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/pdutt

Qualifications

PhD (University of Calcutta) (1996) Title: Theatre Journals in Nineteenth Century India: Criticism, Aesthetics and Theory.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political theatre and Left Cultures, Feminist Theatre and practices, Comic and popular traditions.

Experience

1989 - 1997: Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. India.
1997 - 1999: Reader, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. India.
1997 - 1999: Served as Head of Department.
1999 - 2010: Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU.
2000 - 2010: Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU.
2015 - 2017: Served as Dean of School, SAA, JNU.

Awards & Honours

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Led a number of international project collaborations with University of Warwick (UKIERI-UGC and British Academy), Freie Universitat, Berlin (EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: Making Literature in a Global Worls) and University of Cologne.

She was also the main PI for the JNU IGP-UGC cluster IV. She has served as a distinguished fellow at the Cluster of Excellence (EXC 2020) in 2023 and the Leverhulme Professor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2024. She is the President of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre (Cambridge, 2022)
Theatre, Activism and Subjectivity; Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World (co-edited with Silvija Jestrovic, MUP 2024).
Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an identity (Co-authored with Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Sage 2010)

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Showcasing anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles; Museums and Theatre in Contestation (in Delgado et al, eds: Staging Difficult Pasts; Transnational memory, Theatres, and Museums (Routledge, 2024)
Post-colonial imaginations: Afro-Asian dialogues in the past and present. in Miriam Haughton et al eds: Theatre, Performance and Commemoration Methuen, 2023).
Performing Gestures at Protest and Other Sites (in Shirin Rai, et al. eds: The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance, Oxford University Press, 2021;).
Rethinking categories of theatre and performance; archive, scholarship and practices (a post-colonial Indian perspective)( in Peter Marx and Tracy Davis eds: The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography, Routledge 2020).
October Revolution, echoes of the past: Lenin in popular sites and theatre (Studies in Theatre and Performance, volume 39, 2019 issue 3),