Staging Feminisms

Anita Singh is a Professor in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She received Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the year 2013-2014 at theUniversity of Virginia, USA.She was a Fellow atthe Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla, India (2018-2020). Her recent publications include the two edited volumesGender, Space, and Resistance: Women and Theatre inIndia, (2013) andHero and Hero Worship: Fandom in Modern India (2020). She has completed a Major Research Project sanctioned by the Indian Council of Social ScienceResearch, on Staging Gender: Performing Women in Ramlila of Ramnagar.Dr Singh has published interviews with Indian women performers in the Asian TheatreJournal, contributed in four chapters in theRoutledge Handbookof Asian Theatre,ed.SiyuanLiu (2016), and was the Guest Editor for the special issue of the JournalGender Issues(Springer) 2018.She has also served as the conference Chair for The Future of Women conference held in Malaysia (2018),Colombo, Sri Lanka (2019) and in Bangalore (2020) and is the President of The Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS).