Kamalini Hegde

I am a first year PhD student at the department of South Asia studies, and my research interests broadly centre around questions of cultural practice in South Asia, configurations of tradition and modernity in post-colonial discourses on art, the intersections of aesthetics and politics, and performance pedagogy. Having been trained in sociology in India, I like to approach these issues from the disciplinary lenses of sociology and social anthropology. Most recently in 2021, I submitted an M.Phil thesis titled, "The Promise of Practice: Meanings and Makings in Odissi Dance Pedagogy", to the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad.