Pankhuri Singh
Postgraduate Researcher
English and Creative Writing
About me:
Pankhuri Singh is a second year PhD student in the University of Exeter. Her research involves analysing the methods by which William Shakespeare's plays were adapted in the Indian cultural setting.
She is originally from India and has a passion for writing blogs and photography.
Research Unit:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Plays in Indian Cinema
Research Project:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's plays in Indian Cinema.
My thesis argues for and aims to bring to light the methods employed by Vishal Bhardwaj in adapting William Shakespeare’s plays in Bombay cinema. It will draw on the plays of Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, which were adapted in Maqbool (2004), Omkara (2006) and Haider (2014) respectively. The methodological approaches being used involve close reading of source texts and watching films based on them. I will also take the Transcultural Adaption Theory and the Theory of Indigenisation into account, as the overall focus of my thesis is determining how Shakespeare has been recontextualised in the Indian setting. The thesis aims to offer a nuanced understanding of the various approaches undertaken by Bhardwaj to translocate the Shakespearean play in the Indian setting.
Research Supervisory team:
Supervisiors:
Professor Pascale Aebischer
Dr Ranita Chatterjee
Research Wider Research Interests:
Transcultural Adaptations
Adaptation theories
Cinema and Literature
Rethinking Shakespeare
Education:
January 2022 January 9999
University of Exeter
2021-2022: LTHE
2022: Term 2 Shadowed the Module EAS 1034-Film Studies: an Introduction
2022: Term 3 Grand Challenges-Facilitator-
I have been given the Facilitator position in the Planetary Health Grand Challenges 2022. I will be overlooking and assisting the Undergraduates in their projects on various Sustainable Development Goals relating and effecting the health of the Planet Earth.
2022 (ongoing)- Member of the Student Advisory Group
I am a member of the advisory group for Student Wellbeing, Nurture-U. It is a research project across 6 universities: Exeter, Oxford, Cardiff, Newcastle,
Southampton and King’s College London. The aim of the project is to improve and support university student wellbeing and mental health.
2022: Audited the Module EAS 1041-Rethinking Shakespeare
2021: Audited the Module EAF 2510-Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture
2021: Doctoral Academic Writing- I have attended the course made specifically for the International PhD students to make them well versed with UK Research culture. I have by means of attending this
course learnt the practicalities of PhD writing, academic text analysis and incorporation
of sources into writing. It improved my abilities and made me more informative on
academic writing style and developing an argument.
