Research
Dr. Munjulika is a scholar of South Asian performance cultures with a focus on the history and politics of Bangladeshi dance. Her previous publications have engaged with cultural diplomacy between Bangladesh and India, postcolonial analysis of “Oriental” dance costumes, and racial and socio-historical contexts of intercultural dance productions. Please click the links below to access her scholarship.
Her current research explores how feminine-identified dancers navigate the aesthetic morality of performing in public in predominantly Muslim societies. Her book titled Dancing Ritiniti: Aesthetic Morality and Womanhood in Bangladesh examines embodied ideological frameworks propagated through dance practices in urban Bangladesh.
Publications
Contentious Histories in Emergent Archives, a Dialogue
Dance We Must. Williams College Museum of Art, 2022.
আকরাম খান: বিশ্বজনীন দৃষ্টি | (Akram Khan: Visions of the Universal)
Prothom Alo Eid Shonkha. July 20, 2020
Woman Dancers and Morality in Bangladesh
"Decolonizing Dance Discourses" in Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies. Dance Studies Association, Vol. XL, 2020.
Performers and Performing Groups: Dance: Bangladesh
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC). 2 November 2018
Capitalism and Corporealities: Helena Waldmann's Made in Bangladesh
TDR/The Drama Review, 2016, Vol. 60 (1), p. 150-156
Transnational Pedagogy of Classical Dance: Politics of Ideology Between Bangladesh and India
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2015, Vol. 6 (1), p. 85-96
Price of Gold and Light: Power and Politics in Hey Ananta Punya
Dance Research Journal, 2011, Vol. 43 (1), p. 29-34