All Outputs (10)

Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies (2025)
Book Chapter
Rao, A. (2025). Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies. In A. A. E. Joubin, & N. Khomenko (Eds.), The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Reparative Shakespeare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003499831-15

This chapter is a survey of scholarly works published in 2022–2023 within the field of Shakespeare studies. It is divided into four sections: Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare and Pedagogy, Adaptation and Appropriation, and Global Shakespeare. The go... Read More about Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies.

Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913 (2025)
Digital Artefact
Rao, A. (2025). Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913. [Blog post]

Collection Connections: 'Dating Dr. Dil' by Nisha Sharma (2024)
Digital Artefact
Rao, A. (2024). Collection Connections: 'Dating Dr. Dil' by Nisha Sharma. [Blog post]

The Great Indian Wedding Saga (2024)
Digital Artefact
Premchander, S., & Rao, A. (2024). The Great Indian Wedding Saga. [Blog post]

Suniti Namjoshi: A Critical Biography (2023)
Digital Artefact
Rao, A. (2023). Suniti Namjoshi: A Critical Biography

Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna (2022)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2022). Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna. Shakespeare Bulletin, 40(3), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2022.0035

Habib Tanvir (1923–2009) was a noted Indian playwright who combined different influences to create what Anjum Katyal has termed “inclusive theatre.” In 1993 he translated and directed a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream entitled Kamd... Read More about Realizing a Subaltern Dream: The Politics of Language and Translation in Habib Tanvir’s Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna.

Anuvading Romeo: Retelling Love in Indian iterations of Romeo and Juliet (2022)
Book Chapter
Rao, A. (2022). Anuvading Romeo: Retelling Love in Indian iterations of Romeo and Juliet. In A. Helou, & J. R. Lupton (Eds.), Romeo and Juliet, adaptation and the arts: 'cut him out in little stars' (193-220). Bloomsbury ; The Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109230.ch-007

Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language (2021)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2021). Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language. South Asian Review, 42(2), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2021.1878986

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are filled with male translators, particularly civil servants, translating Shakespeare into Indian vernacular languages. These translations have been archived in repositories like the British library... Read More about Looking for Portia: Archives, Translation and the Politics of Language.

Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies (2019)
Journal Article
Havard, J., Cardwell, E., & Rao, A. (2019). Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies. Radical Teacher: a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2019.729

The project of creating an anti-oppressive composition issue began with multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration between Julia Havard, Erica Cardwell, Anandi Rao, Juliet Kunkle and Rosalind Diaz, who crafted a call for community-building... Read More about Introduction: Anti-oppressive composition pedagogies.

Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her (2019)
Journal Article
Rao, A. (2019). Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her. Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 9(2), 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm.9.2.129_1

This article examines the representation of Prachi, one of the chief subjects of the Indo-Canadian documentary The World Before Her, as a queer girl who finds the space to articulate her non-heteronormativity in a right-wing Hindu training camp for g... Read More about Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her.