Rumya S. Putcha is an associate professor in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Her research interests center on colonial and anti-colonial thought, particularly around constructs of knowledge, the body, and the state. Her first book, The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke University Press, 2023), develops a transnational feminist approach to Indian performance cultures. Her second book project, “Ecologies of Yoga: Somatic Orientalism and Imaginations of India,” extends her work on transnational performance cultures to critical histories of science and medicine.
Education
A.B., The University of Chicago
A.M., The University of Chicago
Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Selected recent publications:
“from elsewhere,” Feminist Review (2023) 133: 1-10.
“Yoga and White Public Space” Religions (2020) 11: 1-14.
Photo credit: Jason Thrasher