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Aniruddha (Ani) Maitra

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Aniruddha (Ani) Maitra

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies

Department/Office Information

Film and Media Studies
327 Bernstein Hall

PhD, Brown University, 2013; MA, Jadavpur University, 2005; BA, Jadavpur University, 2003

  • Associate Professor of Global Film and Media, 冈本视频, 2020-Present
  • Assistant Professor of Global Film and Media, 冈本视频, 2014-2020
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of World Cinema, Hampshire College, 2012-2013
  • Five College Pre-doctoral Fellow, Hampshire College, 2011-2012

Global film and media; queer theory and visual cultures; psychoanalysis and cultural critique; 

Gender and sexuality studies; aesthetics and politics; theories of reading and spectatorship

  • Senior Seminar in Film and Media Studies
  • History and Theory of Cinema
  • Global Media: Flows and Counter-flows 
  • LGBTQ Cinema in a Transnational Frame 
  • Sexuality and Visibility 
  • Global Cinema 
  • The Documentary Impulse 
  • Intro to Film and Media Studies
  • Language, Power, and Difference: Approaches to Semiotics (Hampshire)
  • Introduction to World Cinema (Hampshire)
  • Real and Fictive Identities: Ethnicity in Migrant Literature and Cinema (Hampshire)
  • Sexuality and Capitalism (Hampshire)

Monograph

 (Northwestern University Press, 2020)

Podcast .

Podcast .

Articles/ Book Chapters

"What Does It Mean to 'Sound Gay'?: The Accented (Voice) as Surplus Jouissance" in , 266-280.

 Effects 3 (2022): 98-112. 

 

鈥淲hat鈥檚 鈥榠n鈥?: Disaggregating Asia through New Media Actants,鈥 co-authored with Rey Chow, in , 17-27.

 

鈥淚n the Shadow of the Homoglobal: Queer Cosmopolitanism in Tsai Ming-liang鈥檚 I Don鈥檛 Want to Sleep Alone,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Jindal Global Law Review 4, no. 2 (2013): 239-267. 
Reprint in  317-350. 


Reprint in , 38-57.





鈥淭he Flight of the Eunuch: Mapping Homotextualities in South Asian Diaspora Literature,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, ed. Kaustav Bakshi and Samrat Sengupta (New Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2008), 91-113.
 

Online Articles

 

Other Publications 

Review of 

  • Picker Research Fellowship Award, 2024-2025
  • 冈本视频 Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2019) 
  • Research Council Major Grant (Summer 2017) 
  • Kallgren Teaching-Related Grant (Summer 2016) 
  • 冈本视频 Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Spring 2015) 
  • 冈本视频 Research Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2014)
  • 冈本视频 Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2014)
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 2013-2014 (Declined)
  • Five College Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Hampshire College, 2012-2013
  • Dissertation Completion Award, Brown University Graduate School, 2012
  • Brown-Wheaton Dissertation and Teaching Fellowship, Wheaton College and Brown University, 2012-2013 (Declined)
  • Cogut Graduate Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 2011-2012
  • International Conference Travel Award, Office of International Affairs, Brown University, 2011
  • Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, 2010
  • Pembroke Graduate Fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, 2009-2010
  • Brown University Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008
  • Graduate Scholarship, Paul Foundation, India, 2007
  • CNN International Professional Program Fellowship, Atlanta, 2006
  • Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity (2021-2024)