Rahul Bishnoi
Aadab! I am Rahul, a theatre practitioner and a performance studies researcher at Tufts University. I am currently working on performativity of urban spaces through maps and theatre. This is a backyard exhibition of my work, thoughts and experiments.
I am also attempting to create curated resources on theatre research and navigating academia as an artist. All my writings, reading, teaching lists will be up here once I organise them neatly.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with thoughts, feedback, and contributions.
We are all a work in progress.
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Filhaal, this is all what's on my plate...
PhD Coursework at Tufts University
Beginning a new life in the city of Boston as a Theatre and Performanance Studies PhD student at Tufts University.
Tufts ProfileOxford Center for Life-Writing Scholarship
OCLW’s Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Scholarship is awarded to eight writers around the globe to develop a life writing project. As part of this initiative, I am writing a memoir of my mother.
Project DetailsVilla Swagatam - Maison Julien Gracq Artist Residency (July 2025)
The Maison Julien Gracq is an organization in the West of France, dedicated to literature, art and knowledge. The idea was to comply with author Julien Gracq’s will stating that his family estate should become a place of work and rest for the contemporary authors.
Rahul is a visiting artist at MGJ in the summer of 2025 exploring the poetics of non-representational space through literary cartographies of Julien Gracq amidst the landscapes of rural France. His essays and writing will soon be up on this website.
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Recent Publications
Riverside Stories: Writings From Assam
Book Review, Doing Sociology
Read More"The metaphor of the river connects all the stories, poems, and artworks of the collection. During rains when the water rises, the boundaries of land, languages, gender, and time are inundated. As Banamallika puts it, “In Assam when the water rises, we rise along with it. Sometimes we make it, sometimes we don’t. Telling our stories all along”.
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Every Brilliant Thing
A Performance
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A Text Beneath a Text: The Literary Labyrinth in Nabokov's Pale Fire
CEPT Essay Prize 2024, 25th Feb 2025
Read More"Form not just precedes substance, it constitutes it and as Catherine Malabou would argue years later Nabokov’s death, form itself is an ontology (Malabou 2012, 42). In the spirit of paying attention to the Form and Nabokov’s craft of knitting literary structures, this essay aims to unveil a structural close reading of his novel Pale Fire and discuss it in relation with the figure of Labyrinth."
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A Performance of Decay
Journal Article, Digital Culture and Society (Under publication)
Coming Soon