Faculty

Sharmistha Saha

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Sharmistha Saha
Designation
Assistant Professor
Discipline
English
Email
sharmistha[at]hss[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in
Phone
+91(022) 25765345

Postdoctorate from International Research Training Group ‘Interart’, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany in 2015.

Doctorate in Theaterwissenschaft from International Research Training Group ‘Interart’, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany in 2014.

MPhil in Theatre and Performance Studies from School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2010.

M.A in Arts and Aesthetics from School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2008.

Theatre Historiography, Performative Practices of the Political Left, Performance Philosophy, Colonial Theatre, Theories of Acting, Aesthetics and Politics, Archive and the Arts, Critical Theory

Books:

Editor

2022 [upcoming]: 'Performance making and the archive', Routledge. 

2021: 'English Drama on the Bombay Stage in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century', Manipal University Press.

Author

2018: 'Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India’, Aakar/Springer.

Reviews: 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23938617211032329?fbclid=IwAR2dQB20dk6cvKGrx8Dou2WSLsV9Jp96Y9OHrXBMcxsAW7T8tH_MXIhbET8

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2575745443?parentSessionId=%2FcMBuvXyESczYrTw7XO57pH10g4VL5byR4RrZmf5MZY%3D

Papers:

2017: Published in the online journal Hakara (ISSN 2581-9976) edited by Ashutosh Poddar and Noopur Desai - 'Creative Encounters and Artistic Practices'

https://www.hakara.in/sharmistha-saha/

2016: Published in the Book ‘Exploring alterity in a globalized world’ edited by Christoph Wulf - ‘The Commune-ist Air: living the everyday in times of struggle – the case of Indian People’s Theatre Association’s Central Squad’, pp. 197-215, Routledge.

2013: Published in the Book Gender, Space and Resistance edited by Dr, Anita Singh and Tarun Tapas Mukherjee - Witnessing Movement: The Women Artists of the Indian People’s Theatre Association’s Central Squad, pp.174- 188; DK Printworld(P) Ltd.

2009: Published in the Journal of Indian Anthropological Society -Politics of Gender and Gender Performitivity in the Cult of Yellamma, pp.149-158; vol.44.

2022-2023: Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship

2015: Post-graduate Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)


2012-2014: Graduate Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)


2010-2012: Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Fellow


2009: Junior Research Fellow (JRF) of University Grants Commission (India) and NET (National Eligibility Test)


2006: Becas MAEC-AECID Scholarship from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Government of Spain

2005: Winner of Premio Cervantes, Embassy of Spain, New Delhi

PhD courses: Aesthetics and Criticism, Performance Theory and Praxis, Archive and the Arts

Undergraduate Courses: Trends in Twentieth Century Drama

PhD research