Debajit Bora Assistant Professor Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research , New Delhi, India Contact No.: +91-9871714911 Email Id: [email protected]

Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance, Media studies, Cultural Politics, Cultural Policy and Documentation, Cultural aspects of North East India.

Professional Experiences:

PhD Pursuing School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University

M.Phil 2015 School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University

M.A 2012 Mass Communication and Central University Journalism B.A. 2010 English (H) University

Academic Credentials:

Assistant Professor at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (March, 2019 to present).

Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Media Studies of Central University of Rajasthan, Badnersindri, Ajmer (for a semester) (2018).

Junior Project Fellow under the project “Development of online course on Arts Appreciation” in Department of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, NCERT, New Delhi (2015-16).

Sub-Editor (National–International beat and Children's page) for the vernacular news paper Asomiya Pratidin published by Sadin group of publication, , (2012-13).

Publications:

Micro cultural conflicts and the aesthetics response of Badungduppa theatre published in ‘RiDE: A Journal of applied Theatre and Performance’ by Routledge, Taylor and Francis group ISSN: 1356-9783 (Print), 1470-112X (Online). Politics of Performance/creation of ‘Darangi’ identity: Looking through Ojapali performance of Assam, published in Research in Drama Education (Ride), A journal of applied Theatre and Performance, Rutledge, Taylor and Francis group ISSN: 1356-9783 (Print), 1470-112X (Online).

The political role of ‘Bihu’ in Assam Movement (1979) published in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (Vol. 12, No. 1, January-March, 2020. 1-11) ISSN: 0975-2935.

Co-translator Sal Soul Sukracharya, a biography of Rabha community theatre activist Sukracharya Rabha (originally by Nilutpal Barua) , published by Badungduppa, ISBN: 9788193-957912.

Fellowship/ Awards:

Bursary award from International federation for theatre Research (IFTR) to present a paper in the IFTR World Annual Congress, held at Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China in July 2019.

Bursary Award from International federation for theatre Research (IFTR) to present a paper in the IFTR World Annual Congress, held at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2017

National Fellowship for OBC by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to pursue M.Phil/PhD in April 2015.

Research Projects:

Jhumur as a site of performance: Under North Eastern Council ongoing Understanding the identity and Sponsored Project “Upgradation representational politics of the tea for the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at garden communities of Assam Jamia Millia Islamia.” Audio-Visual documentation Funded by: 2017-2018 module of Bihu, Ojapali and Sahapedia, New Delhi Devdhwani performance of Assam (2 modules) Creative Projects:

Directed the documentary film Theatre of the People (based on two ancient theatre forms of Assam) screened at International Music Film Festival, Nepal and Culture of life film fest, United States and Intimalente/Intimatelens Ethnographic film festival, Italy in 2018-19.

Supervised student documentary production (As part of Documentary Production Paper) namely Monalisa of India (on Kishangarh school of painting, Rahasthan) made by the students of Dept. of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.

Co-directed and edited the music video Desia Pila by rap singer Sumeet Samos in 2018.

Co-directed, conceptualized and edited the documentary film on traditional foods of Assam namely Tradition of taste produced by Dept. of Mass communication and Journalism, Tezpur University in 2012

Have Co-directed CSR film PADATIK- the foot soldier for Vedanta Aluminum Company and sponsored by Vedanta Corporate communication in 2012

Have written approximately 30 articles (on literature, culture, socio-political issues), both in English and Assamese in various News Papers and Magazines of Assam such as The Assam Tribune, The Sentinel, Asomiya Pratidin, Amar Asom, Sadin, Satsori, Prantik etc.

Conferences/ Seminar/ Workshops:

As Resource Person:

Workshop namely Development of an On-line Course for In service Teachers of Upper Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Arts Education organized by Dept. of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, NCERT, New Delhi (July 17-19, 2018)

Workshop namely To map and to prepare the QR code of textbook: An introduction to Indian Art- Part-I for Class XI organized by Dept. of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, NCERT, New Delhi (July 31- August 3, 2018)

As Presenter:

Theatre and Violence: Struggle for Language Assertion and Peace Mission, 1960 - presented at the 2019 IFTR Annual Congress at Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China in July 2019

Migration, Labor and Citizenship as an Allegorical Performance Narrative the paper has been presented in the annual conference of International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) held in July 2017 at University of Sao Paulo (USP) Brazil. • Theatre and Identity: The Case of Modern Assamese Theatre the paper has been presented in Graduate Research Meet, Organized by IIT, Guwahati in 2017

• Media Literacy and Digital Politics: The Performance of Active Citizenship has been presented as part of the National Seminar entitled ‘Media literacy at the age of convergence’ organized by ICSSR, New Delhi and Dept. of Mass communication and Journalism, Tezpur University in 2017

• When the Body is Identity and Performance: Looking at the Dwarf Artists of Dapoon, the mirror at the National Young Researchers Conference organized by Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 2016

• Performing Mythology and Identity: The Ojapali Performance of Assam presented at the 11th annual conference of Indian Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) at University of Mumbai in 2015

• Politics of Performance/Creation of ‘Darangi’ Identity: Looking Through Ojapali Performance of Assam presented at the annual conference of International Federation for Theatre Research organized by Dept. of Theatre Arts, in 2015