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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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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)
TANG, T. S. D., NIRANJANA, T., LUKOSE, R., YUE, A., VASUDEVAN, N., HOU, H. L. & BAI, M.
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Grant Research
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Saath-Saath Music across the Waters
Moonchu Foundation for Culture and Education Limited
1/11/17 → 15/08/21
Project: Social Projects
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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
Research output
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IACS roundtable to mark the publication of Tejaswini Niranjana’s Musicophilia in Mumbai
NIRANJANA, T., KIM, S., CHOW, Y. F., IP, K. H., WANG, A. C-M. & MORRIS, M., Apr 2021, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 22, 1, p. 100-117 18 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Comment / Debate › peer-review
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Dagadu Parab's Wedding Horse
KAIKINI, J., NIRANJANA, T. (Translator) & BYERS, M., 1 Jun 2020, 2 ed. United States: University of Virginia. 4 p. (Virginia Quarterly Review; vol. 96, no. 2)Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Literary Works (Translator)
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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
Prizes
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LU Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award 2021 (RGC/PICO Grant)
NIRANJANA, Tejaswini (Recipient), Apr 2021
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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LU Research Output Excellence Award 2020
NIRANJANA, Tejaswini (Recipient), Apr 2020
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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Booktalk at Library : Musicophilia in Mumbai : performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Speaker)
21 Oct 2020Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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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 2019Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Other Participation at Scholarly Events
Press / Media
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Narratives of AI in India – day 2
12/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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Book Watch: Tejaswini Niranjana shares her favourite reads
27/01/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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The Note That Lingers On - An ode to Mumbai’s affair with Hindustani music through the 20th century
27/10/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer