Brahma Prakash Assistant Professor Theatre & Performance Studies Jnu, New Delhi-110067
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BRAHMA PRAKASH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THEATRE & PERFORMANCE STUDIES JNU, NEW DELHI-110067 Phone: (+91) 7838966326 Mailing Address [email protected] #007, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, [email protected] New Delhi 110067 INDIA AREAS OF INTERESTS Theatre and Performance theories ‘Folk Culture’ from North India Ritual and Festival Studies Movement and Protest studies Marginalized Cultural Performances Non-Western Aesthetic with a special focus on Chinese, Japanese aesthetics WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 24 July 2015 to the Present. Visiting Faculty, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 Aug 2014 to 23 July 2015. Assistant Professor (tenured), Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 12 July 2012 to 17 Aug 2014. Assistant Professor (adjunct), Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (co-terminus) EDUCATION PhD University of London, UK, Theatre & Performance Studies Dec 2013 Dissertation: The Performance of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the Folk Performance in India MA National Central University, Taiwan, Chinese Aesthetics June 2008 Thesis: < [在「樂」和「舞」之間:一個中國和印度美學的比較研究]> “Between Natya and Yue: A Comparative Study of Indian and Chinese Aesthetics” MA Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Arts and Aesthetics June 2005 (Theatre and Performance Studies, Visual Studies) Unfinished Degree BA Jawaharlal Nehru University, Chinese Language (Hons.) June 2004 Prakash - 1 HONORS AND AWARDS CWIT-CRASSH Fellowship Cambridge University, UK 2019 CRASSH, Cambridge University 2019 Erasmus+Key Action 108 Swagata Fellowship 2018 For presentation at Heidelberg University, Germany Dwight Conquergood Award (DCA) of the PSi 2013 Performance Studies International, Stanford University, USA Charles Wallace India Trust, UK 2012 Central Research Fund, University of London 2011 Reid Research Scholarship, Royal Holloway 2009 Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)-NET of the UGC 2008 Republic of China (Taiwan) Government Scholarship 2005 PROJECTS & GRANTS “The Epical Subalterns”, supported by the Centre for the Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, CRASSH, Cambridge University, UK (2019-20) “The Musical Mediation: Competitive and Collaborative Lives of Popular Music in North India” (Ref: IMPRESS/ P683/ 2018-19/ ICSSR, Amount 15 Lakhs), supported by the IMPRESS-ICSSR, New Delhi (2019-21) Ongoing “Reimagining Banaras: Plurality of Spaces and Performances in Banaras”, a collaborative project with the CSRD, SSS, JNU; Ref: MRP-MAJOR-GEOS-2013-25205 (2015-18); (Amount: 14 Lakhs), supported by the UGC, India; Completed School of Arts and Aesthetics project on “Global Transactions, Transnationality and Performance Practices”, Ref ID: 108, supported by the University with Potential for Excellence, JNU, New Delhi (2014-19) (Amount 62.5 Lakhs); Completed Prakash - 2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught July 2012 to August 2020 SAA 634: Movements and Concepts in Performance (MPhil Optional course) SAA 435: Regional Theatre and Performance Traditions (MA optional) (Developed) SAA-555: Living Traditions of the Indian Performing Arts (MA optional) SAA- 632: Dissertation Seminar: Theatre and Performance Studies SAA-566: Theory and Aesthetics: Theatre and Performance Studies (Developed) SAA-409: World Theatre Scene (MA core course) SAA-648: Sociology of Performance (MPhil Optional Course) SAA-633: Rites, Rituals and Festivals: Cultural Enactments and Their Transformations (Developed) Doctoral Students Supervised Kunwer, Subodh, “Festival as a Mode of Conceptualization in Adivasi (Indigenous) Movement in Jharkhand” (Ongoing) Pradhan, Prerna, “Menstruating and Maternalized Bodies: The Performance of ‘Ideal’ Body in Assam’s Ambumach Mela and the Tuloni Biya” (Ongoing) Kumar, Amit. “Naye Rang, Nyi Rasmen, Nye Mele, Naye Pratik: Uttar Pradesh mein Dalit Rajniti kee Nayi Sanskriti mein Nayapan ke Mayne.” (Ongoing) Chakravarty, R.K., “Awadhi Ramlila: Text, Performance and Traditions,” Awarded: 15 June 2015 (co-supervision) Kumar, Satish, “Exploring the Khap Culture through the Performance of Sang in Haryana,” Awarded on 27 Sep 2016 (co-supervision) MPhil Students Advised Keertana, S. “Deixis of Muthappan: Debrahmanising the Discourse of Theyyam” (Awarded 2020) Rao, G. “The Poetics of Region: Andhra and Telangana in the Artists’ Imagination” (Awarded 2018). Lewis, S. “Refiguring Identity: Traces of Bhojpuri Female Migrants”(Awarded 2018) Kumar, A. “Raag, Saaz aur Smriti ka Antr-khel: Dhola mein Sthan, Jati aur Gender ka Performance”(Awarded 2017) Pradhan, P. “Power flows from the Blessing of the Virgin: The Performance of Kumari Worship as site of Manufacturing Consent in Nepal” (Awarded, 2016) Prakash - 3 Kunwer, Subodh. “Performing Sarhul and Becoming Adivasi in Jharkhand” (Awarded 2016) Dost, Jainendra K., “Performance of Gender in Launda Nach: The Politics of Representation and Aesthetics of Performance” (Awarded, 2015) “Performance in the Time of Displacement: The Sohrae of Santhal Adivasi in Jharkhand” ( Awarded, 2015) “The Performance of Emancipation: ‘Socialist Utopia’ in the Theatre of Utpal Dutt and Badal Sircar (Status: Awarded, 2014) Fieldwork and other Responsibilities July 2012 to the Present MA and MPhil Students Fieldtrip to Rakhigarhi, Manali, Madurai, Banaras and Delhi PUBLICATIONS Books Prakash, B., Gaddar: Songs and Memoirs of a Maoist Balladeer. (Forthcoming). Westland Publication 2021. Prakash, B., Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. Journals/ Edited Volume “Naach as an Act of Humiliation in North Indian Society.” Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance, edited by P. Purkayastha and A. Banerji, forthcoming, 2021. “The Erotic Power of the Dancer: Labour of the Erotic and the Bodies of the Sensory in the Dance of Arkestra Girls in North India.” Journal of South Asia History and Culture (Special issue on dance) forthcoming, 2020. “Performers Meet Humanities: Underground Artists Shaping the Humanities”, World Humanities Report of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, UNESCO, 2020 (forthcoming) “Musical Unfreedom and the Drummers Dilemma: Cultural Labour and the Value of Music in Indian Caste Society” in Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia edited by Anna Morcom and Neelam Raina, London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Prakash - 4 Five entries into Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for 21st Century, compiled by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza, London: Bloomsbury, 2020. ISBN: 1350039233, 9781350039230. “Rasa-dhvani Meets Jingjie: Intercultural Metaphor as an Alternative Frame in Comparative Aesthetics,” in R.N. Mishra and Parul Dave Mukherjee (edi). Comparative Aesthetics in Contemporary Frame, Shimla: IIAS, 2019. “An Ode to Prof. Edward A. Rodrigues: The Unconventional Teacher,” The New Leam, Vol. 5, No.41 (2019): 19-23. ISSN: 2455-4936. “'Dangerous' Corporealities of Labouring Bodies,” in Marina Grzinic and Aneta Stojnic edi. Bodies that Matter Again, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. “Review of Raising the Curtain: Recasting Women Performers in India,” by Lata Singh, Social Scientist, Vol.46, no-7-8, pp. 81-84. “Architectures of Fear and Spaces of Hope in Banaras: A City beyond Monolithic Identity,” co-authored with B.K. Choudhary. Asian Journal of Social Science. Vol. 44 (2016): 34-53. “The Contingent of Contemporaneity: ‘Failure’ of Contemporary Dance to Become ‘Political’”, in Anita Cherian, ed., Tilt. Pause. Shift. : Contemporaneity in Indian Dance Production, New Delhi: Tulika Publication, 2016. “Bidesiya in Bihar; Strategy for Survival, Strategies for Performance,” Asian Theatre Journal 33, 1 (Spring 2016): 57-81. “Review of Courtesans, Bar Girls and Dancing Boys and Bollywood Dance,” by Anna Morcom, Seminar, no.676 (Dec 2015). “Review of Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power, Edited by Lata Singh, and Performing Women, Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics and Dissent in North India, By Nandi Bhatia.” Theatre Research International 37.1 (March 2012): 88-90. “Review of Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage,” By Erin B. Mee. Asian Theatre Journal 27.1 (Fall 2010):175-179. “The Politics of (Intra) Intercultural Performance and the Real Guinea Pig of Indian Performance Theatre”, in 跨界對談:差異- 認同與混雜. Edited by Yu-ling Zhao hui. Taipei: Chuban Publication, 2007. Pp. 109-120. ISBN (Print): 9789860117127. Prakash - 5 Columns/ OP-ED Writings in the Media Poets and Artists as Enemies of the State. Hardnews magazine. https://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2020/08/poets-and-artists-as-enemies-of-the- state/?fbclid=IwAR13aRXCrSdGWvTnA8nRlMmvCRV5BpT4jwm3mrquAtgJl25_2 AHLv7f3L8A Tongues are on Trial: Why the attack on the Poets and Activists is Special. Indian Cultural Forum. 17 August 2020. https://indianculturalforum.in/2020/08/17/tongues- are-on-trial/ Death in the Village, Outlook India, Vol. 2. 27 July 27, 2020 https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-opinion-why-i-wont-live- in-my-village-and-wont-leave-the-city-till-forced-to/303456 Accidental Deaths of Migrant Labourers, Karvaan India. 23 May 2020. https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/05/23/accidental-deaths-of-migrant-labourers-a- modest-proposal/ Corona “Jihad” and Irrfan’s Unwanted Guests: Illness as a Metaphor,