Kristen Rudisill

Kristen Rudisill (born September 17, 1975) is a tenured Associate Professor[3] of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University,[2] Research Associate in the South Asia Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies.[4] and a Fulbright Fellow.[5] Her main research areas are dance, competitions, popular culture, India and Disney.[6] She is working on books about Chennai's contemporary theatre and Indian dance competitions.[7]

Kristen D Rudisill
Born	(1975-09-17) September 17, 1975
Nationality	American[1]
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College, University of Chicago Divinity School, University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University[2]

Education

Kristen Rudisill completed her B.A. in Religion at Bryn Mawr College[2] in 1997.[8] She got her A.M. in the History of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in Asian Cultures and Languages at the University of Texas at Austin[1][2] in 2007–2008.[9] Kristen Rudisill studied Tamil with Dr S Bharathi in Madurai, India[1] and with Martha Selby at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][10]

Career

2000s

In 2002, Kristen Rudisill helped in writing a guide to learning Tamil.[11] She was editor of South Asia Graduate Research Journal for 2002 to 2003.[12] In 2003, she was carrying out research in Chennai, India on Tamil contemporary comedy theatrical dramas.[1] In 2005, Kristen Rudisill was a faculty assistant at The South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison for the Intermediate Tamil Class.[13] In 2006, Kristen Rudisill presented "Performance of Culture, Performance of Self: the Perfect Tamil Brahmin Marriage" at the 22nd Annual South Asia Conference at the University of California at Berkeley[14] and "Comedic Exclusions: Tamil Political Satire and Serious Indian Drama" presented at the 35th Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.[14] On 22–25 March 2007, Kristen Rudisill was the organiser and chair of "Sabhas: Changing the Landscape of Chennai's Music, Dance, and Drama" and presented "Sabha Comedy: Content, Aesthetics, and Patronage" at South Asia Session 10 part of the AAS Annual Meeting at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.[15] In 2007, she received the Graduate Student Professional Development Award from University of Texas in Austin Liberal Arts department.[16] She also began research in modern Tamil theatre and twentieth century dance history.[17]

2010s

In September 2010, Kristen Rudisill along with Professor Daniel Shoemaker made keynote presentations at a workshop and conference at Hyderabad, India.[18] In 2012, Kristen Rudisill was undertaking research in India as part of her Fulbright Fellowship at L. V. Prasad Film Institute in Chennai,[5][19][20][21] She gave lectures as part of her Fulbright at the Department of English of Adikavi Nannaya University, Andhra Pradesh.[22] She was also a guest dancer on season 7 of Maanada Mayilada. Kristen Rudisill was involved in protests to stop the demolition of Popular Culture building at Bowling Green State University.[23] In 2013, Kristen Rudisill presented a paper on "Reality Television and the Business of Dance in Chennai, India" at the Labour, Livelihood and Culture: Crafts and Music in the Middle East, South and Central Asia conference at Senate House, London.[24] She helped in the formation of the book Posthumanism.[25] In 2014, Kristen was promoted to Associate Professor and received tenure.[3]

Honors and awards

Kristen Rudisill won a prize for her thesis "From Darkness into Light: Illuminating the Relationship of Agni and Sita in the Ramakatha" in 1997.[26] She won the Emerging Scholar award from the Association for Asian Performance in 2011.[27] She also received the University Continuing Bruton Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006.[28]

References

1. "There some, here a lot". Kungumam. No. 19 December 2003. December 2003. pp. 8–9.
2. "Kristen Rudisill – Department of Popular Culture – BGSU". Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
3. "Scholarship, Achievement Recognized with Tenure/Promotion". Retrieved 12 May 2014.
4. "Dr Kristen Rudisill – Staff – SOAS, University of London". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
5. Rajamundry (March 14, 2012). "Knowledge of culture must for transliteration". The Hindu. India. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
6. Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts. Intellect. 2013. ISBN 1841504947.
7. Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts. Intellect. 2011. ISBN 9781841504940.
8. Turner, John D. (1997). The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration. Philadelphia: Brill. pp. XIV. ISBN 9004108246.
9. Olivelle, Patrick; Martha Selby (2008). "The individual in the nation: locating identity at the transition from didactic nationalism to the lyrical in early twentieth-century Hindi poetry". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
10. Selby, Martha Ann (2011). Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics). Columbia University Press. pp. XII. ISBN 0231150652.
11. Radhakrishnan, Sankaran (2002). Tamil script book: learners manual. Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin. pp. I.
12. "SAGAR Volume 10, 2003" (PDF). Spring 2003. p. 1.
13. "SASLI Faculty". Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
14. "UT Graduate Students Present Research at Conferences" (PDF). South Asia Institute University of Austin at Texas Newsletter. 2006. p. 21.
15. "South Asia Session 10". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
16. "Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Awards". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
17. Soneji, Davesh (2011). Unfinished Gestures. University of Chicago Press. pp. 25, 224, 308. ISBN 0226768112.
18. Wallach, Jeremy (March 2011). "Popular Culture Faculty" (PDF). Department of Popular Culture Newsletter. Ohio, USA. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
19. "United States India Educational Foundation". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
20. "Toledo Legal News – News BGSU professor studying Indian film dance as Fulbright scholar". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
21. "Dr. Kristen Rudisill Receives Fulbright Award" (PDF). Department of Popular Culture Newsletter. March 2011. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
22. "Lectures by Fulbright Fellow at AKNU". The Hindu. 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
23. Shor, Jessie (July 31, 2012). "BGSU leaders not swayed by protests, petitions". Toledo Blade. Ohio, USA. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
24. Labour, Livelihood and Culture: Crafts and Music in the Middle East, South and Central Asia. Chancellor Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU: Senate House. May 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.CS1 maint: location (link)
25. Nayar, Pramod K. (2013). Posthumanism (PTLC – Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature). Polity Press. pp. VII. ISBN 0745662412.
26. "Haverford College: Library : Prize-Winning Theses". Retrieved 10 March 2014.
27. Foley, Kathy (Spring 2012). "From the Editor". Asian Theatre Journal. 29 (1): v. doi:10.1353/atj.2012.0030.
28. McClish, Mark (2006). "Graduate Students Receive Funding for Study and Research of South Asia" (PDF). South Asia Institute University of Austin at Texas Newsletter. p. 20.