Parul D ave Mukherji is a Professor in the Department of Visual Studies\, School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, India. Earlier\, she taught at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics \, Faculty of Fine Arts\, M S University in Baroda. From 2002\, she became the co-convener of the Forum on Contemporary Theory and co-editor of the Jo urnal of Contemporary Thought.
Her current research focuses on Indian art historiography\, the politics of visual representation and the questio n of caste and gender in the study of early treatises of Indian art and aes thetics. It also involves working out a theoretical framework for comparati ve aesthetics to set up a conversation across disciplinary boundaries of cr itical theory and traditional theories of visual representation.
Mukh erji’s publications include two co-edited books: Towards A New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (New Delhi\, 2003) and Rethinking Modernity (New De lhi\, 2005) and recent articles "Whither Art History in a Globalizing World \," Art Bulletin Vol. 96\, no 2 (June 2014) and "Popular Festivals\, Populi st Visual Culture and the Modi Masks" in Bilgrami\, Akeel (ed) Democratic C ulture: Historical and Philosophical Essays (Routledge\, 2011).
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