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Part I: This course would be devoted toi) understanding the debates around ephemerality and the archive andii) how in the context of these debates the archive is employed in theatre historiographyA part of the course will be devoted to examples and techniques that have been developed inemploying history or the archive in performance making.

The course aims to do the following:
1. Situate language in the intersection of various disciplines to show how an understanding of the nature of human language is arrived at through a cross- disciplinary mode of inquiry and to also show how a study of language drives understanding and inquiry within other disciplines as well.
2. Survey the scientific methods and tools that allow an understanding of a. the general phenomenon of language b. the cross-linguistic variation in human languages and the abstract cognitive capacity for language

The proposed course introduces students to the foundations of media studies as a field of research, pedagogy, and practice. The course explores a humanities-oriented approach to media where media becomes an operative term to bring together a wide array of disciplines like film studies, visual cultures, digital cultures, television studies, and media archaeology.

This course introduces students to the idea of performance and its pedagogic practices. The course equips students with critical skills to understand performance, aesthetics and virtuosity and will familiarize students with the performed practice and theories of theatre, dance and other related art forms and also borrow conceptually from the field to understand other social and ritualistic phenomena.

The course introduces the objects, methods, debates and critical frames of literary studies.

Topics of study may seek to examine  Canon formations, Award-regimes  Socio-economic, cultural, political and legal conditions that produce notions of author/ship in different periods and places (e.g.: rise of the professional author copyright laws, the rise/fall of magazine culture, reading cultures)  Minority writing/Minor literatures  Literary controversies  “Anonymous”, Pseudonyms, Heteronyms,  Individual careers In this course we would read a variety of texts ranging from  letters, speeches, award citations, prefaces, manifestoes, auto/biographies  literary pieces that centre t

The course will take a survey form, aiming to introduce students to the history of engagement with literary (and other artistic) forms. As a result, the course, while allowing for conversations across time, will take the route of thinking in linear time to examine developments of thought regarding literature. In doing so, the limits of such linear imagination would also be exposed. It will take the crystallisation of ‘Literature’ as an autonomous domain as the ground to examine how a canon was formed over time.
Possible modules listed below.

This is an advanced course on Postcolonial Theory. In this course, we will examine some of the influential scholarship that constitutes the field of Postcolonial Studies. We will look at a few of the important debates that were waged, including a fierce one on the legitimacy of the term 302221postcolonial302222 itself, the critical vocabulary and methodological tools that developed, and analytical practices that this field engendered. Some of the topics that the course may wish to emphasize upon are as follows:

Topics will include an overview of Shakespearean theatre, audience, classification of his plays, and the main corpus of significant Shakespearean criticism down the centuries. This course will close-read at least 3 or 4 Shakespearean plays and their more famous re-inventions after the sixteenth century. Genre could be one parameter of selecting the texts, taking a cue from the classifications of the Shakespearean canon. To take a few examples: Shakespeare`s Scottish play will be read in sufficient detail and re-considered in the light of its afterlives.

1.The main objective of the course is to open up the field of ‘Theatre and Performance Studies’ to the students such that the various debates around it across continents become clear to them and it enables thinking about the discipline within our contemporary academic landscape.