Tejaswini Niranjana is a cultural theorist, translator, and music curator. She is currently Director of the Centre for Asian Studies at GITAM University, India, and Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She was co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and directed its interdisciplinary Ph.D. program from 2000 to 2014.
Her teaching and curriculum development experience spans Hong Kong, South Korea, the USA, and India. Her books include Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (2006) and Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (2020), both published by Duke University Press. More recently, she edited Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (Oxford University Press, 2020).
She is the co-producer of three documentary films related to music and the curator of Saath-Saath, an India–China music collaboration project. Her book Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992) has influenced a wide range of fields, from anthropology and history to postcolonial studies. She is also an award-winning translator and was most recently awarded the National Translation Prize for Fiction by the American Literary Translators Association.
