Dr Priya Venkat Raman

Dr. Priya Venkat Raman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Drama at the University of Exeter. Her work examines South Asian women’s transnational theatrical and cultural work in India, and the British metropole in the long nineteenth century. Priya has a PhD from the Performance as Public Practice Program, the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests include South Asian performance epistemologies and aesthetics, performance criticism, and spectatorship theories. In her interdisciplinary archival and auto-ethnographic work, Priya integrates dance and performance studies, and feminist, and postcolonial studies. Her performances merge embodied memories of technique and cultural traditions to revive heritage and stimulate societal conversations. These practices inform her pedagogy which aims to cultivate empathetic art consumers and position performance as a cultural practice.