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Dr Nicholson, Rashna Darius

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Dr Nicholson, Rashna Darius

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Short Biography:

Rashna Darius Nicholson is a cultural historian who holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in Theatre Studies from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She studied Performance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Copenhagen and held a junior research fellowship at the ERC-Developing Theatres project at the University of Munich. In recent years, she has been a fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and the National Humanities Center. She is the recipient of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Award and two HKU early career research awards. Her research and teaching specializations include nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first century theatre history, historiography, and practice; postcolonial and world literature; and cultural development. Rashna’s first monograph, The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893), which traces the origins and early development of the colonial South Asian theatre, is winner of the Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize and finalist of the TAPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize and the ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award. She is currently working on three projects: the influence of the Rockefeller and Ford foundations on theatre in the Global South during and after the Cold War, the history of the Festival of India (1985-86), and creative industries and digital media in Hong Kong.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichPhD (summa cum laude)
Université Libre de BruxellesMA
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2021-07-01Early Career Award: Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2022-10-01Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize: Theatre Library Association
Research Achievement
2021-08-01Faculty Research Awards for Junior Tenure-track Professoriate Staff: Faculty of Arts
Research Achievement
2022-08-01Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-track Professoriate Staff: Faculty of Arts, HKU
Research Achievement
2021-03-01Luce East Asia Fellowship: National Humanities Center
Research Achievement
2021-03-01Barbro Klein Fellowship: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Research Achievement
2019-04-01Rockefeller Archive Centre Research Grant: Rockefeller Archive Center
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
2020-MemberAssociation for Theatre in Higher Education
2020-MemberPerformance Studies International
2017-2020ConvenorIFTR Historiography Working Group
2019-MemberAmerican Society for Theatre Research
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
World literature
South Asian drama and linguistics
Palestinian theatre
Globalisation of opera
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, French, German, Italian英語、法語、德語、意大利語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, French, German, Italian英文、法文、德文、意大利文
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