Bishnupriya Dutt | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bishnupriya Dutt

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

School of Arts & Aesthetics

Room No

102

Off. Phone

011-26704689

Residence

09873206251

pia_dutt@mail.jnu.ac.in , bishnupriyapaul@gmail.com

Personal Webpage

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

Qualifications

PhD (Dramatic Critical Literture)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Theatre histories and historiography, Feminist histories of theatre and performance, popular culture, cultures of the Left.

Experience

Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Joined as Associate Professor in 2001.

Previously Lecturer and subseqeuntly Reader at Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calcutta (1989-2000).
Directed and performed in over 50 plays with People’s Little Theatre, Calcutta.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Have led and directed a ten year long, collaboration between the School of Theatre Performance and Cultural Policy Studies (TPCP), Warwick and SAA JNU. A collaboration, named by both the universities as ‘preferred partners’, Completed a UKIERI project on Gendered Citizenship; Performance and Manifestation (2013-15), leading an ongoing British Academy project on Cultures of the Left; Performance and Manifestation.

PI of the IGP DAAD component between FU, Berlin and JNU.

Leads a long term academic-research collaboration with University of Cologne.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Gendered Citizenship: Performance and Manifestation (co-edited with Reinelt and Sahai) (Palgrave Macmillan and Orient Blackswan, Dec 2017), Protesting Violence: Feminist Performance Activism in Contemporary India (in Diamond, Varnay and Amich eds: Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neo-Liberal Times, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Protesting Through Gestures: Maya Rao in Dialogue with Dance and Theatre, (in Munsi and Chakraborty eds: The Moving Space: Women in Dance, Primus Books, 2017), Performing Resistance with Maya Rao: Trauma and Protest in India (CTR vol 25 issue 3, August 2015)

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Theatre and Subaltern Histories, Chekov Adaptations in Post Colonial India in Adapting Chekov, The text and its mutations, (ed) Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerson, Rutledge, London, 2012

History, Memory, Event, a Working Archive (Dossier, co-authored with Janelle Reinelt, Nobuko Anan and Shrinkhala Sahai) Theatre Research International, issue 37\ 02 June 2012, (p163-183).

Unsafe spaces of Theatre and Feminism in India and Identity Politics Forum, Issue 37\01, Identity Politics Forum, Issue 37 \01, march 2012 (p77-87)

Patents (if any)