Swati Arora
Title: Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
School or Department: English and Drama
E-mail: swati.arora (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: India; Delhi.
Period of Interest: 20th and 21st Centuries
Research Keywords: Contemporary Theatre; Performance and Visual Culture; Performance and the City; AfroAsia Intimacies; Transnational Feminism.
Relevant Publications:
- ‘Fugitive Aesthetics: Performing Refusal in Four Acts’, in Srila Roy, Shilpa Phadke and Nicky Falkoff (eds.), Injured Intimacies: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021). Forthcoming.
- ‘Walk in India and South Africa: Notes towards a Decolonial and Transnational Feminist Politics’, Performance and Translation in the Age of Global Asymmetries, special issue in South African Theatre Journal 32.2 (2020).
- ‘Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets’, in WalkingLab (ed.), Walking in/as Publics, special issue in Journal of Public Pedagogies 4 (2019).
- ‘Be a Little Careful: Women, Violence and Performance in India’, New Theatre Quarterly 35.1 (2019).