Visiting Professor
Department of English and Other Languages
GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Bengaluru
Additional Roles
Director - Centre for Asian Studies
Education
Ph. D.
Tejaswini Niranjana is Director, Centre for Asian Studies, GITAM University, India, and Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her books include Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (2020), both published by Duke University Press. Recently, she edited Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (Oxford UP, 2020). She is the co-producer of three documentary films related to music, and the curator of Saath-Saath, the India-China music collaboration project (http://saathsaathmusic.com). Her book, Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992), has impacted a wide range of fields from anthropology and history to post-colonial studies. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently awarded with the National Translation Prize for Fiction by the American Literary Translators’ Association. She was Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society from 2015-2019.