Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India

Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker develops a new framework for understanding non-Anglophone Indian modernisms, analyzing the writing, staging, and reception of major plays in multiple languages.

Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker is professor of English and interdisciplinary theater studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947 (2005) and A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present (2019), both of which received the biannual Joe A. Callaway Prize for the best book on theater.