Prof. Gargi Bharadwaj
October 20, 2023 2024-09-17 12:56Prof. Gargi Bharadwaj
Prof. Gargi Bharadwaj
Associate Professor
Assistant Director, Office of Student Life and Cultural Engagement
B.A. (Hons.), University of Delhi;
PG Diploma in Dramatic Arts (National School of Drama, New Delhi);
Masters in International Performance Research (Erasmus Mundus scholar at University of Amsterdam, NL and University of Warwick, UK);
Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad)
Gargi is a performance studies scholar based in Delhi. She is an alumna of National School of Drama, New Delhi, where she specialised in theatre direction. She has dual MA degrees from University of Amsterdam (Master of Arts in Theaterwetenschap) and University of Warwick (Master of Arts in International Performance Research) and a PhD from university of Hyderabad.
Her doctoral research from Central University of Hyderabad focusses on creating a historical narrative of national cultural policy in India focussing on the functioning of Sangeet Natak Academy and its intervention in Theatre in its formative years. Prior to joining JGU, she taught courses in performance studies at the School of Cultural and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
She researches and writes on cultural institutions and cultural policy, theatre history and historiography, theorising contemporary and feminist performance practice, city and urban performativity. She has published reviews, essays and articles on cultural policy, performance in everyday life, translating and analysing porto-feminist themes in performance, performativity of violence and protests in India, and processes of mediatization as they reflect in contemporary cultural practice.
Commentary:
- Bharadwaj, G. A requiem for New Delhi. Nat Cities 1, 391 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00062-4
Journal Articles:
- Mahanta, Upasana & Gargi Bharadwaj (2022) Shifting Boundaries of ‘Perceived’ Legitimacy: Animative Scenarios from the Farmers’ Protests in India. Performance Research. On Protest 27.2. DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2022.2155420 (Scopus Indexed)
- Gargi Bharadwaj & Upasana Mahanta (2021) Space, time and the female body: New Delhi on foot at night, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1916447 (Scopus Indexed)
- Bharadwaj, Gargi (2021). Politics of Location: theatrical contemporaneity in India. In Ranjana Dave (Ed.),
- Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance. Tulika Books. (Reprinted from Staging Change: Theatre in India, pp. 64-75, by Kapur, Anuradha. Ed., 2019. MARG-A MAGAZINE OF https://tulikabooks.in/catalog/product/view/id/22374
- Cherian E. Anita, and Gargi Bharadwaj (2020) “Constructing Genealogies of Disobedient Performance: Disappearance by/in the Media” Performance Research Vol. 24, No. 7: ‘On Disappearance’ (Scopus Indexed)
- Mahanta, Upasana, and Gargi Bharadwaj (2019) “Does Feminist Historiography Have An Emancipatory Potential? Economic and Political Weekly. ENGAGE. Vol. 54, Issue No. 31, 03 Aug, 2019 (Scopus Indexed)
- Bharadwaj, Gargi (2019). Politics of Location: A View of Theatrical Contemporaneity in India “Staging Change: Theatre in India” Volume 70, No.3, March 2019
Book Review:
- Bharadwaj, Gargi (2023). “Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal. By Trina Nileena Bannerjee” Theatre Research International, 48:3 (323-4), CUP.
Research Booklet:
- Bharadwaj, Gargi (2018). Theatrical explorations of Contemporaneity, Serendipity Arts Festival, December 16-22, 2017, Panjim, Goa ( Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa)
Book Chapters:
- Bharadwaj, Gargi and Anita Cherian. “Pandemic Works: Care and Its Radical Imperatives” in Ashis Sengupta edited “Performing the Radical: India in the 21st Century”. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing. Forthcoming 2025. (Scopus Indexed)
- Bharadwaj, Gargi, and Lonneke van Heugten (2017) “Co-curating the Curriculum: On the Politics of International Performance Pedagogy.” International Performance Research Pedagogies. Palgrave Macmillan. (Scopus Indexed)
- Bharadwaj, G. and Agarwal (2016). “Memoirs of Badal Sircar: Some excerpts from his writings” in Badal Sircar: Searchfora Language of Theatre. Eds. Kirti Jain. Natrang Pratishthan series on modern Indian Theatre. NP, Delhi.
- Introduction to Theatre
- Interdisciplinary seminar-1
- Interdisciplinary seminar-2
- Cultural institutions
- Cultural policy
- Theatre history and historiography C
- Contemporary and feminist performance practice
- City and urban performativity
- Performance studies and Cultural studies