Anita Singh

Anita Singh is a Professor in the Department of English and Co-coordinator of the Centre for Women's Studies and Development at Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India). She is currently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla. Dr Singh completed a Major Research Project sanctioned by Indian Council of Social Science Research, on "Staging Gender: Performing Women in Ramlila of Ramnagar" in September 2016. Furthermore, she has contributed in four chapters in Routledge...See more

Anita Singh is a Professor in the Department of English and Co-coordinator of the Centre for Women's Studies and Development at Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India). She is currently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla. Dr Singh completed a Major Research Project sanctioned by Indian Council of Social Science Research, on "Staging Gender: Performing Women in Ramlila of Ramnagar" in September 2016. Furthermore, she has contributed in four chapters in Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (ed. Siyuan Liu, 2016), has edited Gender, Space and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India (2013) and Revisiting Literary Theory and Criticism: Indian and Western Perspectives, and was the Guest Editor for the special issue of the Journal Gender Issues (Springer, 2018). See less