PRIYA SRINIVASAN
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University
priya.srinivasan@ucr.edu
Phone for the Dance Department (951) 827-3944
Office:
Arts 104
Areas Of Specialization: Dance and Performance Theory, Asian Diaspora Studies, Labor Studies.
Professor Srinivasan's research work explores the inter-relations between gender, immigration, diaspora, citizenship, labor, and dance in the United States and Asian diaspora. Srinivasan is on leave in Shanghai, China and currently working on a book length project titled "Sweating Saris: Indian Dancers in America" The book examines the ways in which transnational Indian performers have through dance negotiated discourses of citizenship in the U.S. particularly in relation to racist anti-Asian immigration laws. This book uses a postcolonial lens to examine the legacy of Indian dance as it has disseminated in the United States in the last one hundred and twenty five years. Srinivasan has also worked as an experimental dance/theatre choreographer in Chicago and Los Angeles, and has extensive training as a professional dancer in Australia. She is currently collaborating with the Arpana Dance Company in Southern California on education and performance projects. Srinivasan recently won the 2008 Gertrude Lippincott Award for the Best Essay in Dance Studies awarded by the Society of Dance History Scholars for her essay "The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What's Behind the Cigarette Poster."
Professor Srinivasan has a PhD from Northwestern University in Performance Studies and an MA in Dance from World Arts and Cultures, UCLA.
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"A Material-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body" Rethinking World Dance Histories. Ed. Susan Foster. Palgrave, New York, July 2009: 53-75.
"The Nautch Women Dancers of the 1880s: Corporeality, U.S. Orientalism, and Anti-Immigration Laws." Women and Performance: A Journal Of Feminist Theory, March 2009: Vol. 19.1: 3-22.
"The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What's Behind the Cigarette Poster: Unearthing Kinesthetic Connections in American Dance History." Discourses in Dance, 2007: Vol.4.1: 7-48.
"Dance Conversations." Sruti-Indian Music and Dance Magazine (July) 2005: 9-12.
"Dancing Modern, Dancing Indian… Dancing in America." Ballet Dance Magazine. April 2004.
"Dancing Modern, Dancing Indian in America." Pulse (Autumn) 2003: 11-13.
"Re-negotiating South Asian and American National Culture through Bharata Natyam Performance Practice" in Proceedings of: Dance in South Asia Conference , Swarthmore College, March 2002. |
Book Review:
Theatre Journal. 2002 Fall. Women's Intercultural Performance. Julie Holledge and Joanne Tompkins. Routledge, London: 2000.
Awards:
Gertrude Lippincott Winner (2008) for Best Essay in Dance Studies - Awarded by the Society of Dance History Scholars
UC Regents Fellowship Award (2006-2007)
Fellow, Mellon Research Group on the Global 19th Century, UCR (2006-2007)
Distinguished Faculty Award (Asian Pacific American Student Programs, UCR) (2006)
UCR Academic Senate Grant (2003-2006)
Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University (2002-2003)
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