Davesh Soneji is a social historian working in the field of performing arts, addressing issues of gender, class, and caste especially in the colonial context. He teaches in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on religion and the performing arts in South India His best known work is ''Unfinished Gestures: Devadāsīs, Memory, and Modernity in South Indi''a; it was awarded the 2013 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from The Association for Asian Studies (AAS).
Soneji has held positions as visiting professor at the
Central University of Hyderabad in India and Le Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) in Paris. He has previously taught at
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
in Montreal, Canada for over twelve years.
Bibliography
* ''Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India'' (2011) University of Chicago Press.
* ''Bharatanatyam: A Reader'' (2012) Oxford University Press.
* ''Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India'' (Ed with
Indira Viswanathan Peterson __NOTOC__
Indira may refer to:
People
* Indira (name)
Films and books
* ''Indira'', an 1873 novella by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
* ''Indira'' (film), directed by Suhasini Manirathnam
* ''Indira'' (1989 film), a Hindi film (Hema malini as Indir ...
) (2008) Oxford University Press.
References
Living people
Academic staff of McGill University
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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