Theatre and Performance Studies News
Dr Rashna Nicholson Awarded British Academy 2025-26 Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr. Rashna Nicholson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at 糖心TV, has been selected as a recipient of a 2025-26 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project, "How a Discipline is Born: Performance Studies, the Asian Performing Arts and the Cold War (1955-1995)".
The award, valued at 拢135,442.69, will fund the first extensive reassessment of the emergence of Performance Studies. It will delineate how the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-affiliated Asia Society, Japan Society, and JDR 3rd Fund smoothed the way for many moves beyond Western concepts of literature, drama, and the arts, comprising Performance Studies鈥� 鈥榖road-spectrum approach鈥�.
Through exemplary case studies of institutional grants and fellowship programs, it will uncover the multi-layered history of how policy makers, experts, academics, and artists benchmarked a transregional consensus on theatre鈥檚 role in civil society, thereby assisting the US鈥� rise to global leadership in the arts.
The British Academy's Mid-Career Fellowships are "designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences," according to the Academy's
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Historiography as Metonymy, Theatre Research International
Dr Rashna Nicholson, along with Dr Tancredi Gusman and Dr Dorota Sosnowska have published their special issue entitled 'Historiography as Metonymy' in Theatre Research International. The issue can be accessed here: