Dr. Sadananda Mayanglambam selected for A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition at Missouri
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Dr. Sadananda Mayanglambam
From Dr. Sadananda Mayanglambam
To introduce myself to you, I am Dr M. Sadananda Singh, working at Naorem Birahari College, Khundrakpam as Assistant Professor in Manipuri. I am very happy to inform that very recently I have been selected as the third Albert B. Lord Fellow in oral tradition to work for three months at the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition of the University of Missouri, US for which now I am in US from 15th September.
Before me Ms. Agnieszka Matkowska and Mr. Zhu Gang from Poland and China respectively have been the recipients of this fellowship. Very fortunately I have become the third recipient and of course the first to become the A.B. Fellow from India.
For detailed information about, please kindly go through the
http://www.oraltradition.org/articles/lord_fellow_2014
Yours sincerely
Dr Mayanglambam Sadananda
University of Missouri,
Columbia
United States of America
Some Achievements of Dr. Sadananda Mayanglambam
Dr. Mayanglambam's research includes epics in folk performative tradition among the Meiteis of Manipur.
Wari Leeba performance art is the prominent oral tradition amoung this group. He continues academic study in parallel with performing this artform. Beginning to learn Wari Leeba in 1998, Dr. Mayanglambam became an approved artist of All India Radio, Imphal, Manipur (India) in 2006.
For further advanced study, he received the Young Artiste Scholarship in the field of Folk/ Traditional and Indigenous Arts for two years (2007-09) under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India's Scheme Scholarship to Young Artistes in Different Cultural Field.
He has conducted more than one thousand performances during the last ten years including a performance at the Estonian Literary Museum for the documentation of archiving in the collection of Estonian Folklore Archives, Tartu, Estonia on June 28, 2011.
He was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, Estonia for ten months during 2010-11 under the Doctoral Studies and Internationalization Program (DoRa-5) of the university.
Dr. Mayanglambam's english publications include:
"Wari Leeba: Storytelling Tradition and Cultural Revival Among the Meiteis of Manipur", Journal of Indian Folkloristics;
"Heloi Oknaba: A Study of Supernatural Encounter", Journal of Social Science, Humanities and Literature; and
A Collection of Essays in Manipuri Folklore, (Co ed.) Imphal: Cultural Research Manipur, 2013.
For his book Folkloregi Taibangda [Into the World of Folklore], Dr. Mayanglambam received the Dr. Soibam Kumar Literary Award from the Manipuri Sahitya Pracharak Sabha, Wangjing, Manipur in 2014.
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