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Angelie Multani
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Born: 17 June, 1970
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
Nationality: Indian
Occupation: Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi[1]
Field: Literature, Performance Studies
Early Life and Education
[edit]Angelie Multani was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1970. She is the daughter of Indu and
Baloo Multani, and had one older brother, Sanjay Multani. Her early schooling was at Villa
Theresa High School, and she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Literature from St. Xavier’s
College, Bombay, after spending a year abroad as an Exchange Student. She came to Delhi in
1991 for an MA at the Centre of Linguistics and English at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
While at JNU, she was a founding member of the Gender Studies Forum and was part of the
movement to establish the Gender Sensitisation Committee against Sexual Harassment or
GSCASH, the very first committee in the country for complaints against sexual harassment on
the campus.
After completing her Ph.D., in the politics of production of English language theatre in the
1990s, Dr Multani taught as a non-permanent faculty member at JNU and the University of
Delhi. She joined IIT Delhi in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences[2] in 2003, and
has been there since.
Research Contributions
[edit]Angelie Multani’s work on the plays of Mahesh Dattani and the English Language theatre of the
1990s was pioneering. Her essays and critical editions on Dattani’s plays are amongst the
foundational texts in the study of the field. She has also worked extensively on other aspects of
modern Indian theatre, from the plays of Girish Karnad and Vijay Tendulkar to the performances
of Shakespeare in India.
Multani’s focus on gender, sexuality and the politics of the English language in India inform her
unique contribution to the study of contemporary literature and culture. Her position in
postcolonial India situates her firmly and shapes the nature of her research and teaching. An
enthusiastic teacher, she loves her time in the classroom and finds it hard to separate her
teaching interests from her research interests. She has consequently supervised PhD works on
fantasy literature, contemporary fiction and science fiction poetry.
Motivated by her abiding interest in social justice and gender issues, she was part of the
nascent Initiative for Gender Equity and Sensitisation forum (IGES) in IIT Delhi, and is now the
first Dean of Diversity & Inclusion at the institute, the very first position of its kind and level
amongst higher education institutions in India. She has also served as Associate Dean for
Student Welfare and as Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
Books; Sole Author:
[edit]‘Centring the Margins: Critical essays on the plays of Mahesh Dattani”
Pencraft International, New Delhi, 2018.
Books Edited:
[edit]'Final Solutions - Text and Criticism' . Pencraft International. New Delhi. 2009.
Critical Essays on the work of Mahesh Dattani . Pencraft International. New Delhi. 2007.
Penguin Study Edition of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Penguin India. 2005.
Co-edited:
[edit]With Arjun Ghosh, Albeena Shakeel, Swati Pal and Nandini Saha, From Canon to Covid:
Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad, Routledge, 2023.
with Dr Kamayini Bhatnagar, Child/hood and Trauma: No Child’s Play. Routledge India, 2019.
Chapters In Books:
[edit]1.‘Just Like a Woman:” female impersonation, gender construction and role playing in
Begum Barve. In ‘Women in Asian Performance: Aesthetics and Politics. Ed Arya
Madhavan. Routledge Oxon and NY. 2017.
2. ‘Appropriating Shakespeare on campus: An Indian perspective.’ In Shakespeare on the
University Stage Ed. Andrew James Hartley. Cambridge University Press. UK. 2015.
3.Making the Modern Self: Self-Fashioning and Identity Formation in Indian Writing in
English. ‘Comparitivism, Identity, Communication. Eds. Emilia Parpala and Rimona
Afana. Universtaria Craiova. 2013.
4.‘Staged Realities: Texts vis-à-vis Performances’ in ‘The Plays of Mahesh Dattani’ ed. Tutun
Mukherjee. Pencraft International. New Delhi. 2012.
5.‘The Absurd in Modern European Drama’. In ‘Modern European Drama: From Ibsen to
Beckett. Ed. Swati Pal. Pencraft International. New Delhi. 2012.
6.with Vandana Saxena, 'Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Cult
urally in ‘Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Eds.
Bill Ashcroft, Ranjini Mendis, Julie McGonegal and Arun Mukherjee, Rodopi, Amsterdam,
New York. 2012.
7. 'Forgiveness is the only Final Solution in ebook: Forgiveness: probing the Boundaries,
edited by Geoffrey Karabin and Karolina Wigura, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. 2010.
ISBN 978-1-84888-018-4.
8. From Black and White to Colour - the changing representation of the white man in
mainstream Hindi cinema' reprinted in longer version in Perspectives on Comparative
Literature and Culture in the Age of Globalisation, ed. Suagato Bhaduri and Amar Basu,
Anthem Press India, 2010.
9. 'From Black and White to Colour - the changing representation of the white man in
mainstream Hindi cinema' Selected and Refereed Seminar Proceedings of the IACLALS
Inter- National Seminar, Varanasi, January 2007. published as an anthology ' 1857 and
After - Literary representations, eds. RN rai, Anita Singh & Archana Kumar, Pencraft
International, New Delhi 2009.
10. 'Interrogating the post-colonial - a reading of plays by Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and
Mahesh Dattani. in Modern Indian drama: Issues and Interventions. ed. Lakshmi
Subramanyam. Srishti. New Delhi. 2008.
11. Games People Play - A Reading of Waiting for Godot. Penguin Study Edition. Ed. GJV
Prasad. Penguin Books. New Delhi. 2006.
12. ‘A Metro-sexual Love story’ in Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Ed. GJV
Prasad. Pencraft International: New Delhi. 2004.
13. ‘Jimmy Porter ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai, or the ‘Motiveless’ Anger of Mr Jimmy Porter’ in
The Lost Temper: Critical Essays on Look back in Anger. Ed/ GJV Prasad. Macmillan.
2004.
14. ‘The Page and the Stage: The Representation of Women in two plays by Mahesh Dattani
in Signifying the Self: Women and Literature. EDs. Malashri Lal, Shormishtha Panja and
Sumanyu Satpathy. Macmillan. 2004.
15. ‘Lines and their Shadows: A Reading of Gender Roles in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow
Lines’. [Ed.] Dr Arvind Choudhary, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines – Critical Essays,
Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi. 2002.
16. ‘“Off-Centre” : The Displacement of Women Characters in Ghashiram Kotwal and Tara’,
[Ed.] Lakshmi Subramanyam, Muffled Voices: Women in Modern Indian Theatre, Shakti
Books, New Delhi. 2002.
17. With V. K. Karthika, ‘Performance and Reception: Moliere in New Delhi’, [Ed.] Pronoti
Sinha, Twentieth Century European Drama, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 1997.
In Journals
[edit]1. ‘Queer Citizens in the City’. In Synergies Inde, SYNERGIES INDE, March 2022, No 10,
2021, City and Gender, Postcolonial Perspectives, coedited by Vijaya Rao and Vidya
Vencatasen.
2. Telling the whole story: The role of the Bhagvata in Karnad’s Hayavadana. MZU Journal of
Literature and Cultural Studies (An Annual Refereed Journal) ISSN 2348-118. March
2015.
3. From the Zoo to the Jungle: A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s The Untouchable and
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger in US-China Foreign Language, Vol 10, No. 3 March 2012.
David Publishing Co. U.S.A.
4. 'More Indian, Less English? Contemporary Indian Theatre in English. Muse India, No. 29.
Jan-Feb 2010. http://www.museindia.com/showfocus18.asp?id=1499
Muse India: The Literary ejournal. ISSN: 0975-1815
5. Twenty Years of Dattani. Muse India No 23, Jan-Feb 2009.
http://www.museindia.com/showfocus12.asp?id=1135. ISSN: 0975-1815
6. ‘Inner and Outer Space in the Plays of Mahesh Dattani. JSL – Journal of the School of
Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Special Issue on Theatre/Performance,
Jawaharlal Nehru University. Autumn 2006.
7. A Conversation with Mahesh Dattani interview published in JSL – Journal of the School of
Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Autumn 2005.
8. Entry on Mahesh Dattani for the Indian section of the
Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English (1994). Second Editio
n, [Eds] Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah & Dr. Shyamala A. Narayan, Routledge. 2005.
9. Final Solutions? JSL JSL – Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies.
On Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man- The Politics of Production & Performance’, in Seagull
Theatre Quarterly, Issue 11, September 1996.