Dr. Ameet Parameswaran

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies
KeywordsPerformance, Geographies and Experience, Orientalism, Cold War and Theatrical Exchanges, Theatre/performance as Worksite of Democracy, Intercultural theatre/performance, Theatre/performance exchanges and democracy
Honours and awards

2022: Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow, University of Cologne

2019: Erasmus+ Programme Swagata I (Staff Mobility for Teaching) at the University of Cologne. Duration: 9 days. June.

2019: Fellow in Research Area 2 "Travelling Matters" in the Cluster of Excellence Project, Travelling Matters: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective¸ Freie University, Berlin. Topic of Research: “Globality and the Aesthetics of the Left in Germany and India”. Duration: 2 weeks (May 15-31, 2019)

2017: Faculty Research Fellow, at Freie University, as part of Indo-German Partnership in Higher Education UGC-DAAD. Duration: April 30-May 31.

2011: James Pendleton Foundation Prize, School Wide Award for Academic Research by The School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California Los Angeles.

2008: Chancellor's Prize, University of California Los Angeles.

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityNew Delhi
InstitutionJawaharlal Nehru University
InstituteSchool of Arts and Aesthetics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter W. MarxInstitut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2022

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2025Ameet Parameswaran, Rahul Dev: To be Partisan, Unsettled, and Alert: Conversation with Geeta Kapur. In: Geeta Kapur, Speech Acts. Tulika Books, 2025. 166-181
2024ameet parameswaran: Activations of the Threshold: Rhythms of Radical Alienness in Aravindan’s Thampu. In: Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 28, 2024, 89-97
2024ameet parameswaran: Book Review: Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. By Jisha Menon. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021. Pp. 248. $99.95 Hb; $34.95 Pb. . In: Theatre Research International, 49, 2024, 237-238.
2024ameet parameswaran: Der Kalte Krieg, politisches Theater und das Max Mueller Bhavan: Hansgünther Heymes Antigone in Calcutta (1979) und eine Residenz avant la lettre. In: Stefan Keppler-Tasaki, Alexandra Ksenofontova and Jutta Müller-Tamm, Writing in Residence: Globale Literaturproduktion in deutschen Residenzprogrammen. De Gruyter, 2024. 69-92
2024ameet parameswaran: The Indiscreet Charm of Left Nostalgia: Reeking Redolence in the Contemporary. In: Bishnupriya Dutt and Silvija Jestrovic, Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World. Manchester University Press, 2024. 163-179
2022ameet parameswaran: Book Review: Daphne P. Lei, Charlotte McIvor, eds. (2020) The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance. In: European Journal of Theatre and Performance, 2022, 638-645