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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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feminism
Social Sciences
India
Social Sciences
nationalism
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language
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music
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cinema
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cultural studies
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caste
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Projects 2017 2020
Saath-Saath Music across the Waters
Moonchu Foundation for Culture and Education Limited
1/11/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Social Projects
Saath-Saath - Music Across the Waters (scale-up)
11/06/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Other Knowledge Transfer
Musicophilia and Publicness in Mumbai: A New Approach to Cultural Analysis
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Grant Research
Research Output 1988 2020
DEEWAANA (the mad one) : the lover of music
NIRANJANA, T., Jul 2019, In : Cultural Studies. 33, 5, p. 749-777 29 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed)
twentieth century
music
solitude
sociality
metropolis
Problems for a contemporary theory of gender
THARU, S. & NIRANJANA, T., 25 Sep 2019, Dalit Feminist Theory : A Reader. ARYA, S. & SINGH RATHORE, A. (eds.). Taylor and Francis, p. 40-59Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
gender
caste
feminism
community
Society
Musicophilia and the lingua musica in Mumbai
NIRANJANA, T., 2018, In : Cultural Studies. 32, 2, p. 261-285 25 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed)
music
metropolis
public space
inhabitant
subjectivity
Prizes
RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) Award 2017
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Recipient), Oct 2017
Prize: Prize / Award
honors and awards
social sciences
research programs
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Recipient), 26 Jan 2019
Prize: Prize / Award
Writer
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
South Asian Literature
Indian Languages
Fraternity
Press / Media
‘Knowledge Deemed Crime Against the State’: Students, Professors Stand With Hany Babu
15/09/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
'Appeal for Reason' from over 600 concerned citizens on Indo-Pak tension
2/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer