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Biography
Tejaswini Niranjana is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (Berkeley, 1992), Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (Durham, 2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai (forthcoming, 2019). Her most recent edited volumes are with Wang Xiaoming, Genealogies of the Asian Present: Situating Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Delhi, 2015), and with Anup Dhar and K.Sridhar, Breaking the Silo: Integrated Science Education in India (Delhi, 2017). Prior to her appointment at Lingnan, she worked at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and Yonsei University, Seoul; and a Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (NUS-Singapore), the Institut de Etudes Avancees (Nantes, France), and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany).
Research interests
Digital Cultural Studies, Gender and sexuality in Asia, Cultural and social history of Indian music, Music pedagogy, Bilingualism in higher education, Performance studies and performance theory
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Projects
Digital Intimacy, Young Women and Social Transformation in Asia
NIRANJANA, T., LUKOSE, R., YUE, A., VASUDEVAN, N., HOU, H. L. & BAI, M.
1/01/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Grant Research
Saath-Saath Music across the Waters
Moonchu Foundation for Culture and Education Limited
1/11/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Social Projects
Digital Intimacy, Young Women, and Social Transformation in Asia (亞洲的社會轉型與年輕女性的數位親密關係)
NIRANJANA, T., LUKOSE, R., YUE, A., VASUDEVAN, N., HOU, H. L. & BAI, M.
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Grant Research
Research Output
Dagadu Parab's Wedding Horse
KAIKINI, J., NIRANJANA, T. (Translator) & BYERS, M., 1 Jun 2020, United States: University of Virginia. 4 p. (Virginia Quarterly Review; vol. 96, no. 2)Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Literary Works (Translator)
Open Access
Hindustani Music and the Emergence of a Lingua Musica in Mumbai
NIRANJANA, T., Mar 2020, Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India. NIRANJANA, T. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 64-88Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter
Music, modernity, and publicness in India
NIRANJANA, T. (ed.), 26 Mar 2020, Oxford University Press. 352 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor)
Prizes
LU Research Output Excellence Award 2020
NIRANJANA, Tejaswini (Recipient), Apr 2020
Prize: Prize / Award
RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) Award 2017
NIRANJANA, Tejaswini (Recipient), Oct 2017
Prize: Prize / Award
Activities
- 1 Other Participation at Scholarly Events
Performance Studies x Cultural Studies Colloquium : Cultures in Motion, Performance in Transit
Hyunjung LEE (Organiser), Paul RAE (Organiser), Chiayi SEETOO (Organiser), Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Discussant), Stephen CHAN (Discussant), Anjeline DE DIOS (Discussant) & Soo Ryon YOON (Moderator)
22 Feb 2019
Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Other Participation at Scholarly Events
Press / Media
Books of the week: From Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa to Tejaswini Niranjana’s Musicophilia in Mumbai, our picks
29/03/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
The Deewane Of Hindustani Music
8/03/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer