PhD Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Title of Dissertation: ‘Fashioning a National Theater: Institutions and Cultural Policy in Post Independence India’.
M.Phil. English Literature, with a focus on American Poetry.
Title of Dissertation: ‘The City and the Body in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg’.
MA English Literature, Stella Maris College, University of Madras
BA English Literature, University of Madras.
Past Experience
2016-Present: Associate Professor in Literary Art, SCCE
2010-2012: Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
2005-2016: Assistant Professor in English, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
2003-2005: Adjunct Faculty in Media History and Theory, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
My Zone / Area of Expertise
Postcolonial Literatures and Theory
Literary History
Performance Studies
Theatre History
Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy Studies
Dance Studies
Literary and Critical Theory
Awards
Fellowship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, 2010-2012
India Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2001
Charles Wallace Trust India Fellowship, 2001
UGC-JRF Fellowship,1991
Publications
The Convolutions of Curation: Genealogies of Repertoire and Identity in the Performances of Narthaki Natraj and Shri Kalakrishna’, Serendipity Arts Foundation, Forthcoming, 2021.
Anita E. Cherian & Gargi Bharadwaj. ‘Constructing Genealogies of Disobedient Performance: Disappearance by/in the Media, Performance Research, 24:19 (2019): 77-85. Published online February 2020.
Tilt, Pause, Shift: Dance Ecologies in India. Ed. Anita E. Cherian. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016.
‘Encountering the Performance Space, Experimenting with Dramaturgy’ in Nissar Allana ed. Ibsen Conference 2008: The Contemporary Relevance of Ibsen, Inroads into Theatre Dramaturgy in India. Delhi: Dramatic Arts and Design Academy, 2009.
‘Institutional Maneuvers, Nationalizing Performance, Delineating Genre: Reading the Sangeet Natak Akademi Reports 1953-59’, Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society 2:3 (July-Sept, 2009): 32-60.
‘The First Drama Seminar Report: Imagining a National Theatre.’ Sangeet Natak Vol. LXI, No. 2 (2007): 15-48.
Review. Rustom Bharucha’s The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization. (2001), Interventions Vol. 6, No. 1 (2004): 140-142.
Review. Helmut Wautischer ed. Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology. (1998). Indian Journal of Folklore Research Vol.1, No 2 (2002): 115-119.
Seminar / Conferences
Panel, ‘Practice as Research & Research as Practice,’ AUD Research Festival, January 2020.
Anita E. Cherian, ‘Tagore, Neruda, Cèsaire: A View from the South,’ Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, October 2011.
Anita Cherian & Veena Naregal. ‘Reviewing Disciplinary Agendas in Theatre History: Cultural Arenas, Policies, Institutions,’ ( A research and translation project in South Asian theatre histories, 1930-1970). Hosted by the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi in 2007. Supported by Hivos, the Tata Trust, and the India Foundation for the Arts,
