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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 → 31/12/20
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
Saath-Saath - Music Across the Waters (scale-up)
11/06/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Other Knowledge Transfer
Research Output
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 › Research
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)
Musicophilia in Mumbai : Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
NIRANJANA, T., Feb 2020, Duke University Press and Tulika Books. 272 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Author)
Prizes
RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) Award 2017
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Recipient), Oct 2017
Prize: Prize / Award
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (Recipient), 26 Jan 2019
Prize: Prize / Award
Activities
- 1 Other Event / Participation
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 Research-related Events › Other Event / Participation
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
Solidarity statement from scholars abroad condemning attack on JNU students and faculty
7/01/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer