0000-0002-8429-6288 About
Dr Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri is Professor and former Chair, Department of English at Gauhati University, and specializes in Drama, Theatre and Film Studies.
Among her publications are: A Short History of Indian Drama in English: the Colonial to the Contemporary (Orient Blackswan, 2026), Mahesh Dattani, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press (Foundation Books), (2005, reprinted: 2009, 2011) and Ideas of the Stage: Selections from Drama Theory, Ghy: GUPD, 2010.
She is on the editorial board of Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, the Journal of the International Association Theatre Critics.
She was a Fulbright Nehru Fellow for the year 2015-16 at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York. She was also Segal Fellow at the Graduate Centre at New York in 2015.
She curated the first two editions of the Guwahati Theatre Festival in 2016 and 2017. She is dramaturge for prominent local theatre groups in Assam and a member of the core committee of NÃT: Theatre Archives of Assam.
She leads a translation project of the collected works of Arun Sarma, the noted Assamese dramatist.
She was elected Smuts Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (2023-24).
Employment
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Gauhati University Director2022 - 2024
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Gauhati University Professor1996 - Present
Education
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Gauhati University MA1991 - 1993
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Gauhati University PhD? - 2003
Projects & Funding
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Publications (6)
- Then and now: Nation and transnational identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala's Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua's Ajeyo (2014) Save
- Traversing diverse terrains: Interview with abhishek majumdar Save
- Hanging in Τhere—Theatre Under the Sal Trees Save
- Old text, new theory: Reading Tagore's red oleanders through ecofeminist lenses Save
- 'Thak'/Freeze-Negotiating Narrative Positions in Adaptation Save
- Contemporary Indian writers in English: Mahesh Dattani: An introduction Save