Research

My research is published as articles and book chapters. If you don’t have institutional access, please email me for a PDF.

“Señoritas at Work: Gendered Work, Aspiration and Leisure in the Films of Zoya Akhtar.” In Magazine, Aakshi and Amber Shields (eds.), ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 164-179.

“A Manifesto for Staging Gendered Violence.” In HowlRound Theatre Commons (ed.), HowlRound Anthology: Essays and Conversations from the First Ten Years. 2022.

“A Walk for When You’re Hungry.” In Dee Heddon et al (eds.), The Walkbook: Recipes for walking & wellbeing. AHRC, 2022.

“Hand to Mouth: Pushpamala N.’s (In)edible Nationalisms and Corporeal Performance.” In Juneja, Monica and Sumathi Ramaswamy (eds.), Motherland: Pushpamala N.’s Woman and Nation. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2022, pp. 94-103.

“Last Rites: Self-Representation and Counter-Canon Practices in Classical Music through Radhe Radhe.”Open Library of Humanities, 8 (1). 2022, pp. 1 - 27.

“The Problem of the Composer Anniversary”, in ‘Representing ‘Classical Music’ in the Twenty-First Century’, a blog for the eponymous AHRC-funded research network. 4 May 2021.

“The Afterlife of a Walk: A Dialogue on the Possibilities of Anti-Racist Walking”, with Ella Parry-Davies. Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages 30 (4): 2020. DOI:10.1080/10486801.2020.1824670

“An Eye for an Eye: the Hapticality of Collaborative Photo-Performance in Native Women of South India”. Theatre Research International, 44 (02): 2019, pp. 118 - 134. ISSN: 0307-8833

“A Manifesto to Decolonise Walking: Approximate Steps”, Performance Research, 22 (3): 2017, pp. 85-88. DOI:10.1080/13528165.2017.1348596

“Walking the Walled City: Gender and the Dérive as Urban Ethnography”, Etnološka Tribina (Ethnological Forum), 46 (39): 2016, pp. 198-212. DOI:10.15378/1848- 9540.2016.39.09

“Finding Femininity: Homi Adajania and Representations of Urban Womanhood” in Viswamohan, Aysha Iqbal and Vimal John (eds.), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema. New Delhi: Sage, 2017, pp. 291-307.

“The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty” in Chaudhuri, Rosinka (ed), The Cambridge History of Indian Poetry in English. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 328-344.