CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

Prof (retd) and former Dean, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

H S Shivaprakash is a renowned poet, playwright and scholar. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award (2013), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1997), four Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Best Book Prizes and the Karnataka Nataka Akademi Award. He is an internationally acclaimed expert on European and Indian theatre. He is a prolific writer and has published widely on medieval literature, particularly Kannada Vachana poetry. He expertise extends from comparative aesthetics, religion and literature, and theatre to the semiotics of translations and adaptations. His work has also focussed on caste struggle in Indian literature and theatre, socio-spiritual movements of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and arts and literature of Northeast India.