Megha Anwer

As a theorist of literature and visual culture, Megha Anwer’s publications range from investigations of nineteenth-century photography, to analyzing the social structures of class, caste, race, and gender as they manifest in global cinema and postcolonial literatures. Her scholarship incorporates perspectives and theories from urban studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies and violence studies in a global and transnational context. Her co-authored book, Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India, is forthcoming with the University of Michigan Press. Dr. Anwer’s co-edited volume, Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies (2021) was published by Rutgers University Press. Her publications have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, Critical South Asian Studies,Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Film Studies, Victorian Studies, Widescreen, Global South, Journal of Higher Education Management, among others. In her teaching, Dr. Anwer invites students to engage with visual and literary cultural productions—literature, film, photography, digital media, popular culture—to explore the power dynamics that infuse cultural representations. Dr. Anwer encourages a critical self-awareness in her students, empowering them to locate themselves within the intellectual and political questions of our times by interrogating the narratives we weave about the world, exploring new ways of telling individual and collective, local and global stories. She has received multiple awards and grants for her teaching.