Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Superhuman Super powers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from Assam region of India, Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume 1 (Routledge), Eds Orenstein and Cusack, 2023
Sartorial Politics from Street to Screen: Female Leaders in India and Bollywood Design, Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies, 2021, Eds Paulicelli, Manlow, Wissinger
Chhau in Durga Pujas of Bengal, Folk performance in India, Center for Knowledge Ideas and Development, India, 2021
Yours, Mine, Theirs or a new Intercultural, Studies in Costume and Performance,
Intellect Press, 2020
(used in CUNY Graduate Center’s Theatre and Performance Dept’s course on Research Methods)
Ahariya Aesthetics, Theatre Design and Technology, USITT Publications, 2020, Winner, Herbert D. Greggs Honor Award in 2021
Masks and Costumes of Bhaona, Asian Theatre Journal, 2020, 37.2, University of Hawaiʻi Press,
(used in class for Indian Government’s online course on ethnography https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_de14/preview)
Cross Pollination in Bollywood, Fashion Practice, 2020, (with Cheri Vasek), Taylor and Francis
Bedazzled Bollywood: Cloth Context and Creation, Dress, 2019, 45. 2
(with Cheri Vasek), Taylor and Francis
Masks and Costumes of Purulia Chhau, Asian Theatre Journal, 2019, 36.1
University of Hawaiʻi Press
Nirbhaya: From Victim to Victor, Samyukta Journal, 2016, (with Claudia Orenstein), University of Kerala, India
In the Pipeline
"Gina Blau: An under Acknowledged Expert of Indian Dance?" Dance Research Journal, Cambridge University Press, In the pipeline
"Tazia in South Asia", Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance
Pennsylvania State University Press, In the pipeline
Event/Book Review
"Ramavan, a review" Narthaki, Gateway to the world of dance 2023
"South Asia Youth Style: by Begaum et al". Book Review, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2022
"Fashion and Post-Colonial Critique" (book review), Fashion Theory, Taylor and Francis, 2019
"Ancient Threads and Steps from India meet in Philadelphia", Journal of Costume and Performance, 2018, Volume 3 Number 2, Intellect Ltd
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Several articles on Bollywood
Encyclopedia of Film and TV
Bloomsbury Publications 2020 (with Cheri Vasek)
Recent Presentations
2016 Dressing Global Bodies Conference, University of Alberta, Canada
Bollywood Bodies:Definitions Over Decades and Regions
2015 Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Surviving Chau -post screening film discussion with audience about Chau dance from Eastern India
http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/surviving-chau-06-24-2015
2014 AAARI CUNY, New York
Bollywood and Beyond:Visual Appeal in Costumes in Indian Films.
http://aaari.info/14-11-07Chatterjee.htm.
2014 Vernacular Traditions, Barnard College, New York
Talk on Chhau masks and their design
https://theatre.barnard.edu/vt-schedule
2014 USITT, Fortworth, TX
Bollywood and Beyond:Visual Appeal in Costumes in Indian Films. Cheri Vasek and Deepsikha Chatterjee
http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2014/03/March2014.pdf
2014 USITT Fortworth, TX
Hair And Makeup Of Kunqu Opera From China
Poster Session, Deepsikha Chatterjee
Awards
2014 Best Costume Design Butoh Medea-United Solo, New York
2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Mentor-Hunter College
Grants
2015 FITT grant from Hunter College
-to create video tutorials for the theatre dept costume lab.
2013 PSC CUNY grant
-to research Chau Dance masks in Eastern India
2010 USITT grant of $10,500 (with Prof Cheri Vasek from University of Hawaii Manoa)
-to study Bollywood film costuming and other film production centers in India in India
2006 Graduate Fellowship Florida State University $18,000