Contact
Email:
anirbanghoshpresi@gmail.com
Anirban Ghosh completed his doctoral thesis "The Tropic Trapeze: Circus in Colonial India" with a successful defense at the institute for theatre studies, LMU university of Munich, in January 2014.
Anirban Ghosh, born in Calcutta, joined the group as a PhD student in May 2010. He has an MA in History with specialization in Modern India at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His interests are cultural histories of theatre and performance, spatial histories and narratives of medicine/animals in popular representations.
Publications
In collaboration with Debanjali Biswas, 'The Altered space: Community dances from everyday to the proscenium' in Traversing Traditions: Celebrating Dance in India, Ed by. Urmimala Sarkar and Stephanie Burridge, New Delhi: Routledge .2010
Feature in the Sephis e-magazine: “Some conversations within a city: with Hindutva and JNU on top
Research Project
The Tropic Trapeze: Performance and Visuality in Colonial India