Joan L. Erdman (Columbia College Chicago)

Joan L. Erdman
Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Columbia College Chicago 

and

Research Associate
Committee on Southern Asian Studies
The University of Chicago

Mailing address:
Department of Liberal Education
Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605 USA

phone: 312-344-7530
fax:   312-344 8061 to my attention
email: jerdman@colum.edu

Joan Erdman is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on cultural policy 
and performing arts in India.  Her recent publications include Stages:  
The Art and Adventures of Zohra Segal (1996), Arts Patronage in India 
(editor)(1992), Patrons and Performers in Rajasthan: The Subtle Tradition 
(1985), "Dance discourses: rethinking the history of the 'oriental dance'" 
(in Gay Morris, ed., Re-Writing Dance, 1996),  "Performance as 
Translation:  Uday Shankar in the West" (TDR 1985); "The Empty Beat:  
Khali as a Sign of Time" (American Journal of Semiotics), and many more...  
Erdman received her Ph.D. and M.A. from The University of Chicago, and her 
B.A. from Radcliffe College of Harvard University.  She is currently 
working on a full-length manuscript entitled Art Deco Dancer: Uday Shankar 
and the Oriental Dance, and she is the General Editor of a new 
Encyclopedia of World (5 volumes) to be published in 2009.