faculty

Anupama Arora, PhD she/her/hers

Professor

English & Communication

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Education

Tufts UniversityPhD
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiMA
Sri Venkateswara College, University of DelhiBA (Hons.)

Teaching

  • Post-colonial and Global Anglophone Literature; Literature and Empire
  • Multicultural Literature, especially Asian British and Asian American literature
  • Women's Studies, especially Global/Transnational Feminism
  • Bollywood Studies
  • Literary Criticism and Theory

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Selected topics in Black Studies. May be repeated with change of content/topic.

An introduction to 20th century Anglophone Postcolonial Literature from Africa, Caribbean, and South Asia. Course surveys genres of fiction, drama, poetry, theoretical writing, with attention to the socio-political and historical contexts. This course may also include study of other cultural forms such as films.

Advanced and specialized studies in film (e.g., Shakespeare on Film) or in video production; topic selected by the instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.

Topics will be determined by the faculty member and will therefore vary.

Examination of how Bollywood (popular Hindi-language Indian cinema) portrays gender and sexuality as they intersect with issues of tradition, modernity, caste, class, region, religion, nation, and migration in postcolonial India. Bollywood is one of the largest film industries in the world, and this course explores how these films have come to both reflect and shape Indian society and culture. Cross-listed with ENL 377.

Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline's course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

An introduction to 20th century Anglophone Postcolonial Literature from Africa, Caribbean, and South Asia. Course surveys genres of fiction, drama, poetry, theoretical writing, with attention to the socio-political and historical contexts. This course may also include study of other cultural forms such as films.

Research

Research interests

  • Postcolonial Literature, especially from South Asia and its diaspora
  • Popular Indian film
  • 21st century Global Anglophone Literature

Select publications

Anupama Arora received her PhD in English from Tufts University. Her teaching and research areas include Anglophone postcolonial and global literatures, women’s and gender studies, and Indian film, among others. She is the recipient of several awards at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth: 2020 Scholar of the Year Award; Provost’s Best Practices Award for the Recognition of Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology in 2011 and in 2014; and the Robert G. Darst University Honors Program Service Award for 2016-17. She is also co-executive editor of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship, an open-access journal. In addition, she served on the editorial board of one of the oldest journals in women’s literature, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2020-2023); and worked as an assistant editor at Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India (1997-1999). She has published two books, Bollywood’s New Woman (Rutgers, 2021) and India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s (Palgrave, 2017). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature; Women’s Studies; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Ariel: A Review of International English Literature; LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. She has also presented her work at many national and international conferences.

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