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Zara Barlas, M.A.
Graduate Student
Position
- GPTS Student
Contact information
Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 021
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
- Email:
- barlas@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
- Phone:
- +49 (0) 6221 54 4381
About Zara Barlas
Zara Barlas joined the Cluster’s Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) in October 2011, supervised by Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja (Global Art History) and Prof. Dr. phil. Dorothea Redepenning (Musicology).
In 2008 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London and City University London with a special focus on British imperial policy and decolonisation, and broadcast journalism. In 2010 she was awarded a Master of Arts in History, with a regional focus on South Asia, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her M.A. thesis was entitled: 'Operatic Portrayals of the “Exotic” and Parallels with the Official Colonial Narrative: Representations of South Asia in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles.'
Zara’s Ph.D. project explores the parallels between musical and visual representations of South Asia in British art, and places these within the historical context based on relations between Britain and India throughout the period. In addition to the written thesis, she also intends to produce a documentary film based on the research.
