EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. program in Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (1991-2000).* Dissertation area: Modernism in Indian Theatre
M.Phil. in English, Faculty of Arts, Delhi University, India (1984-1987)
M.A. in English, Faculty of Arts, Delhi University (1982-1984)
B.A. (Honors) in English, Indraprastha College, Delhi University (1979-1982)
High School ICSE and CBSC, Springdales School, New Delhi, India (1977-1979)
*Doctoral Studies in Dept. of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University All coursework completed, exams completed, dissertation proposal approved by 1995; research and fieldwork done in India intermittently 1993 through 1997, dissertation writing started 1996, more than two-thirds completed by 2000; unable to complete dissertation thereafter, hence Ph.D. degree not obtained.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND COURSES:
Directors’ Workshops and training at The American Center (USIS), Max Mueller Bhavan, National School of Drama, New Delhi, India – 1987, 1988
Course in Directing at the University of Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. – 1990–1991
Kabuki Theater Workshop and training at La Mama, New York, 1997
Beginners’ German Language course at Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe Institute), Hyderabad, India – 1989
Rondpoint 1 and Rondpoint 2 French Language courses at Alliance Francaise, New York – 2009, 2010
Web Design and Development course at F-Tec Institute, New Delhi, India – 2012, 2013
Training in Voice and singing (Rabindra Sangeet, Western Opera); guitar playing – misc. years
Fine Art training (oil painting, portraiture) at The Art Students League of New York – Nov 2013–May 2015
RESEARCH AND SPECIALIZATION AREAS during M.Phil. and Ph.D. studies::
1. M.Phil. in English at Delhi University (fixed 2-years coursework program): Seminar courses taken:
Shakespeare and his contemporaries I – Marlowe, Green, and Shakespeare’s Histories and Comedies
19th Century American Fiction – major authors from St. James de Crevecouer and Cooper to Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James
Shakespeare and his contemporaries II – Ben Jonson, and Shakespeare’s Tragedies and ‘Problem’ plays
Modern European Drama – Pirandello, Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett, Osborne, and Brecht; theories, plays
Modern British Novel – Conrad, Joyce, Doris Lessing
D.H. Lawrence – special course on Lawrence alone, covering all his genres
19th Century Russian Fiction – major authors: Pushkin, Goncharov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Schedrin; major critics: Belinsky, Herzen, Chernyzhevsky, Dobrulyubov; related history
2. Ph.D. in English at SUNY Buffalo (attended one year): Seminar courses taken:
Psychoanalysis and Literature – with Claire Kahane, Dept. of English
Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism – with Henry Sussman, Dept. of Comparative Literature
Philosophy of Kant, Hegel, Frankfurt School Critical Theory (Benjamin, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas) – with Andrew Hewitt, Dept. of Comparative Literature
Independent study on Adorno, comparative Modernsim – with Andrew Hewitt
3. Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University (3½ years coursework): Seminar courses taken:
Asian Theater – India – with Richard Schechner
Asian Theater – South-east Asia (Bali, Java, the Philippines) – with Richard Schechner
Asian Theater – China and Japan – with Richard Schechner
Introduction to Performance Theory – with Schechner, and others
Festival and Performance – with James Amankulor
African Theater and Performance – with James Amankulor
African Theater and Performance – with N’gugi wa Thiongo
Commodity Fetishism and Walter Benjamin – with Michael Taussig
The Sacred in Everyday Life – with Michael Taussig
Representations of Death – with Misha [?]
Psychoanalysis and Performance – with Peggy Phelan
Intercultural Encounters – with Joseph Roach
The Performance of Radicalism: New York in the ‘30s – with Mark Franko
Dissertation Proposal (mandatory course) – with Brooks McNamara
PH.D. TERM PAPERS on:
[List paper titles] PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS: [List some] Conferences, Public Lectures, and Readings Papers presented at several national and international literature conferences from1980s through 1990s on Shakespeare, Milton, Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Renaissance and Jacobean Drama, Modern Indian Poetry, Modern Indian Drama, and on specific issues within Cultural Studies and Performance Studies. Lectured on Folk Theater in India, Indian modern theater, and Women Writing in India at the New York Public Library, NYC high schools, and Pratt Institute. Publications 2007. Style Guidelines Manual for Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Cambridge University Press. (In-house publication). 1995. Poem "Colored Christ: for Todd Ayoung's painting" in Syncopated City, Vol. 1, no. 1. Providence, RI: Sunspot Small Press.