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Biography

Aparna Dharwadker is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include colonial and postcolonial studies, comparative modern drama, modern Indian theatre, contemporary world theatre, postcolonial modernisms, and the global South Asian diaspora. She is the author of A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present (2019) and Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947 (2005), both winners of the prestigious Joe A. Calloway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre. 

Contact

7125 Helen C. White Hall

600 N. Park Street

Madison, WI 53706

adharwadker@wisc.edu

 

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