Dr. Jashodhara Sen is a performance historian and practitioner specializing in South Asian theatre and performance. Her performance practice, scholarship, and teaching are informed by the theories of postcolonialism, decoloniality, and subaltern studies. Jashodhara’s research interests lie in the intersection of politics and the histories of liberatory performances across South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Her current research, which she is developing in her book project (under contract), Intersectionality in 'Folk' Performance through Identity and Expression, focuses on the culturally specific performance form jatra and its many modalities and is centered on class and gender dynamics. The book traces the genealogies of the performance form and highlights jatra’s evolution through the interface of a class and gender politics. Her research and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Ecumenica, Asian Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, Texas Theatre Journal, and Political Theology Network. Jashodhara completed her doctoral degree in Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020 and serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Florida, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate theatre history and theory courses.

Jashodhara is working on an ongoing research project, a digital storytelling platform for South Asian immigrant women titled “Leaving Home, Finding Home,” that redefines audience-participant relationships in alternative theatrical spaces. For this project, she has received the PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Award through Imagining America in 2017, the Engaged Arts and Humanities scholarship (2018-2019), and the Community-Based Research scholarship (2018-2019). Most recently, Jashodhara received an award in directing from KCACTF (The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival) for the play Shakuntala (adaptation, 2020) produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU Boulder.

Besides her scholarship and artistic endeavors, Jashodhara loves taking long strolls with her pups while listening to Indian classical music.

Current Research Interests: South Asian diasporic theatre and performance, postcolonial and subaltern studies, and digital autobiographical performance. 

Recent peer-reviewed journal publications
“Mothering the Pandemic through the Interface” of Ritual and Performance.” Journal of Performance, Religion, and Spirituality, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2021. 
https://openjournals.utoledo.edu/“ndex.php/prs/issue/view/41

“Renegotiating Home through the Digital Storytelling Platform” Leaving Home, Finding Home.” Texas Theatre Journal, Vol. 17, 2020. 79. 


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