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This website assembles critical and creative documents as well as visual texts about the tawaifs and devadasis of India, whom we jointly designate as courtesans, and aims to deepen and enrich our understandings of these women, particularly within the frameworks of British colonialism, Indian nationalism, and the normative construction of gender identity in India. It offers an extensive, though not exhaustive, annotated bibliography, which includes citations of scholarly articles and books, films, novels, memoirs, short stories, and certain archival documents, followed by descriptions of their contents. Some of the annotations raise questions that readers might want to consider. You\u2019ll also find here photographs, pictures, video interviews, and various other kinds of visual texts.<\/p>\n
\u201cCourtesans of India\u201d is one part of a larger research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The principal investigators of this project are Dr. Nandi Bhatia of the University of Western Ontario and Dr. Teresa Hubel of Huron University College, both in London, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n
We envision these pages as a resource for anyone interested in this subject.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Teresa Hubel<\/strong><\/p>\n Read her research!<\/a><\/p>\n A professor of English and Cultural studies, Teresa Hubel has published widely on the literature, dance, film, and history of India from both the colonial and postcolonial periods. Her book,\u00a0Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>examines literary and historical texts by the British and Indian writers who gave meaning to the construct \u201cIndia\u201d during the final decades of the Empire, while Literature and Racial Ambiguity<\/em>, (co-edited with Neil Brooks) explores the representation of hybridity in various literary texts. She has also published numerous essays in journals as well as chapters in various books and is especially interested in how class, gender, and caste inform any particular representation, believing that a \u201cview from below\u201d not only radically alters what we can perceive but has the potential to create alterations in public practice.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Nandi-Bhatia.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″ border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″]<\/p>\n Dr. Nandi Bhatia<\/strong><\/p>\n A specialist in Postcolonial Literature and theory, Nandi explores the connections between literary and theatrical practices, nationalism, and colonialism, and examines the ruptures and crossovers that resulted from the British Empire’s longstanding engagement with India. Such connections have been analyzed in her monographs, Acts of Authority\/Acts of Resistance: Theatre and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Performing Women\/ Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics and Dissent in North India<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Relocation<\/em><\/a> (co-ed. with Anjali Gera-Roy) and in journal articles and anthologies. For her research, she has been awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature and was named UWO Faculty Scholar.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ column_structure=”1_2,1_2″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/Anmol-Photo.png” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.5.3″ hover_enabled=”0″ border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px” alt=”A photo of Anmol Dutta, a researcher who assists in the development of the Courtesans of India project. She is standing outside and smiling on a sunny day, wearing cozy fall clothes.” title_text=”Anmol Photo”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Anmol Dutta<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Anmol is a restless reader who\u00a0watches Netflix for research and laughs at her own jokes.\u00a0A former Shastri fellow, she is a\u00a0PhD student in English and Writing Studies at Western. Her doctoral research\u00a0explores the transnational implications of Netflix India’s dialogue between culture, re-presentation and \u2018protecting sensibilities\u2019 in 2020s\u2019 India.<\/p>\n Like Sherri and Jordan, Anmol sources, gathers, and annotates\u00a0resources and citations that are listed on Courtesans of India.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Sherri-Liska-Square.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″ border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.3″ hover_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Sherri Liska<\/strong><\/p>\n Sherri is an aspiring voice actress, feminist killjoy, and professional cat mom. She graduated from English and Cultural Studies at Huron and currently works with several projects in neurodiversity, accessibility, media, communications, and comically large hat collections.<\/span><\/p>\n Sherri gathered and annotated many of the journal-based citations you\u2019ll find on Courtesans of India<\/em>, and she collaborated with Jordan to create the “Questions to Consider” sections on selected courtesan films. <\/em>She pops back in occasionally to\u00a0ensure the layout is user-friendly and navigable. (Sadly, she’s never been able to figure out the mystery of the dual search bars.)<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ locked=”off”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Jordan-Parfitt-Square.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″ border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″]<\/p>\n Jordan Parfitt<\/strong><\/p>\n Jordan is a graduate of English Literature from Huron University College, where his\u00a0<\/span>primariy<\/span>\u00a0interest was in postcolonial literature. He is currently living in Toronto, working, reading far too many books on game design<\/span>,\u00a0and occasionally writing.<\/p>\n Jordan, in addition to collaborating with Sherri on annotating courtesan films and articles, has gone down in history as Courtesans of India\u2019s Gallery Builder Extraordinaire: he gathered, sourced, and organized almost all of the images you\u2019ll find on the site.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Project This website assembles critical and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" This website is part of larger project funded by SSHRC. This section is under construction.<\/p>\n Dr. Teresa Hubel<\/strong><\/p>\n Read her research!<\/a><\/p>\n Teresa is a professor of English and Cultural studies at Huron University College.<\/p>\n Most of her published work is on the literature, dance, film, and history of India from both the colonial and postcolonial periods.<\/p>\n She teaches a wide range of courses influenced by her research, and her approach tends toward the feminist, historicist, and postcolonialist. She is especially interested in how class affiliations inform any particular representation.<\/p>\n She believes that a \"view from below\" radically alters what we can perceive or understand about any given situation, but is also committed to a pedagogy that sees academia as a site that can work to encourage a social criticism which has the potential to create alterations in public practice.<\/p>\n Her book, Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History<\/a> <\/em>examines literary and historical texts by the British and Indian writers who gave meaning to the construct \u201cIndia\u201d during the final decades of the Empire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Nandi Bhatia<\/strong><\/p>\n A specialist in Postcolonial Literature and theory, Nandi's research explores the connections between literary and theatrical practices, nationalism, and colonialism, and examines the ruptures and crossovers that resulted from the British Empire's longstanding engagement with India. 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