Dr Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri (she/her) is Professor and former Chair, Department of English at Gauhati University, specializing in Drama, Theatre and Film Studies; and the former Director, Centre for Performing Arts and Culture, Gauhati University. 
Among her publications are: Mahesh Dattani (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press; Foundation Books, 2005) and Ideas of the Stage: Selections from Drama Theory (Gauhati: GUPD, 2010). She is on the Board of Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, a Q2 Journal of the International Association Theatre Critics. 
On a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award (2015-16), she worked on a research-cum-lecture project called ‘Theaters, Spectacles, Audiences: Indian and American Cultures of Viewership’, at CUNY Graduate Center, New York; delivering talks at Columbia University, San Diego University, and West Virginia University while on the Fellowship. She was also Segal Fellow at the Graduate Centre at New York in 2015. 
She was elected Smuts Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (2023-24). During this time, she was invited to speak at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London and at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, UK. 
Dr Chaudhuri has been part of panels at the World Theatre Congress at Stockholm (2016), Belgrade (2018) Shanghai (2019) Manila (2024), and Cologne (2025). She curated the first two editions of the Guwahati Theatre Festival in 2016 and 2017. She is dramaturge for local theatre groups in Assam and is a member of the core committee of NÃT: Theatre Archives of Assam. 
She has just completed a history of 200 hundred years of Indian theatre in English – slotted for release in the next few months.