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Professor Royona Mitra
Associate PVC (EDI) / Professor - Dance and Performance Cultures

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Mitra, R. (2025) 'Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch'. Oxford University Press.

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Mitra, R. (2022) 'Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender'. Dance Research Journal, 53 (3). pp. 6 - 24. ISSN: 0149-7677

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Ramirez Ladron de Guevara, V., Mitra, R. and Nakase, J. (2022) 'Lower Back Interculturalism: Talking Politics and Practice of Intercultural Performance', in Baruco Machado Andraus, M., de Lemos Melo, R. and Pagliusi, F. (eds.) Estudos Interculturais en Artes Presenciais. Curitiba, Brazil : Editora CRV. pp. 34 - 48. ISBN 10: 65-251-3088-3. ISBN 13: 978-65-251-3087-3.

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Mitra, R. and Patel, J. (Accepted) 'Kathak is Always Already Queer: Jaivant Patel Dance and I Am Your Skin (2021)', in Purkayastha, P. and Banerji, A. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance.

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Mitra, R. (Accepted) 'A Letter to Nahidji: On Dance as Protest', in Mock, R., Young, H. and de Guevara, VL. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance.

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Bailes, SJ., Hemsley, A., Mitra, R., Shah, R., Stanger, A. and Toussaint-Baptiste, J. (2021) 'Unsettling sound: Some traces'. Theatre Research International, 46 (2). pp. 230 - 245. ISSN: 0307-8833

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Mitra, R., Blanco Borelli, M. and Lease, B. (2021) 'Introduction: Outing Archives, Archives Outing'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31 (1-2). pp. 4 - 13. ISSN: 1026-7166

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Mitra, R. (2021) 'Dancing the Archive Brown, Dancing the Archive Other in Akram Khan's XENOS (2018)'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31 (1-2). pp. 91 - 112. ISSN: 1048-6801

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Banerji, A., Mitra, R., Amin, TN., Davis, CU., Mccarthy-Brown, N., Pillai, N., et al. (2021) '"Decolonising Dance Discourses", Special Issue for Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies'. Dance Studies Association.

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Mitra, R. (2020) 'Costuming Brownnesses in British South Asian Dance', in Ross, J., Manning, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) The Futures of Dance Studies. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 471 - 488. ISBN 13: 9780299322403.

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Mitra, R. (2018) 'Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton'. Dance Research Journal, 50 (3). pp. 6 - 18. ISSN: 0149-7677

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Mitra, R. (2017) 'Akram Khan on the Politics of Choreographing Touch', in Butterworth, J. and Wildschut, L. (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (2nd Edition). Routledge. pp. 385 - 397.

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Mitra, R. (2017) 'Beyond Fixity: Akram Khan on the Politics of Dancing Heritages', in Morris, G. and Nicholas, L. (eds.) Rethinking Dance History. Routledge. pp. 32 - 43.

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Training Grounds Editorial'. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 7 (3). pp. 485 - 486. ISSN: 1944-3927

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Decolonising Immersion: Translation, spectatorship, rasa theory and contemporary British dance'. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 21 (5). pp. 89 - 100. ISSN: 1469-9990

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Authorship, Physical Theatre and Justitia', in Johnson, P. and Dobkowska, S. (eds.) Justitia: Multidisciplinary Readings of the Work of Jasmin Vardimon Company. Bristol : Intellect Books. pp. 143 - 154. ISBN 10: 1783205288. ISBN 13: 9781783205288.

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Mitra, R. (2015) 'Book Review of Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performance by Christine Garlough'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 25 (4). pp. 608 - 609. ISSN: 1477-2264

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Craddock, K., McCaw, D., Mitra, R. and Wilson, T. (2015) 'Training Grounds Editorial'. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 6 (3). pp. 353 - 354. ISSN: 1944-3927

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Mitra, R. (2015) 'Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 1137393653 ISSN 13: 978-1-137-39365-4

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Mitra, R. (2014) 'The Parting Pelvis: Temporality, Sexuality, and Indian Womanhood in Chandralekha's Sharira (2001)'. Dance Research Journal, 46 (2). pp. 5 - 19. ISSN: 0149-7677

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Mitra, R. (2014) 'Book Review: The Dance that Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia, by Rachmi Diyah Larasati'. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 37 (1). pp. 185 - 187. ISSN: 0085-6401

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Mitra, R. (2010) 'Performing Cultural Heritage in 'Weaving Paths' by Sonia Sabri Dance Company', in Jackson, A. and Kidd, J. (eds.) Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation. university of manchester press. pp. 144 - 157.

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Mitra, R. (2010) 'Living a Body Myth, Performing a Body Reality', inThe Feminism and Visual Cultural Reader. Routledge. pp. 560 - 570.

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Mitra, R. (2010) 'Dancing Embodiment, Theorising Space: Exploring the ‘Third Space’ in Akram Khan’s zero degrees', in Lepecki, A. (ed.) Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global. Seagull Books Ltd. pp. 40 - 63.

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Mitra, R. (2009) 'Embodiment of Memory and the Diasporic Agent in Akram Khan’s Bahok', in Counsel, C. (ed.) Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 41 - 58.

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Mitra, R. (2009) 'Akram Khan Re-writes ‘Radha’: The ‘Hypervisible’ Cultural Identity in Kylie Minogue’s ‘Showgirl’'. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 19 (1). pp. 23 - 34. ISSN: 0740-770X

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Mitra, R. (2006) 'Living a Body Myth, Performing a Body Reality'. Feminist Review., 84. pp. 67 - 83.

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Mitra, R. (2005) 'Cerebrality: Re-writing Corporeality of a female Indian dancer', in Birringer, J. (ed.) , 15. pp. 167 - 183.

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