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Rashna Darius Nicholson is a theatre historian with specializations in South Asian and Palestinian theatre. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She studied Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Subsequently, she held a research fellowship at the ERC-Developing Theatres Project, LMU Munich. Her research interests include Parsi theatre, Palestinian cultural funding and development, Indian theatre historiography, world literature and the globalization of opera.