Meenakshi Ponnuswami

Meenakshi Ponnuswami

207A Vaughan Literature (On leave Spring and Fall 2012)
(570) 577-1654
m.ponnuswami@bucknell.edu

Meenakshi Ponnuswami (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of English. Her interests include modern drama, theatre history, and performance theory.

Her publications focus on postwar British theatre, most recently on the work of black British and British Asian playwrights. She is currently finishing an article on a playwright of Jamaican origin, Winsome Pinnock, and developing an article on British Asian women's stand-up comedy. Her latest research is about the theatre of the Caribbean Arts Movement in London.