Anupama Arora

faculty

Anupama Arora, PhD she/her/hers

Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-910-6520

508-999-9235

Liberal Arts 322

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

Programs

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.

The particular topic of each seminar is announced immediately before each registration period. Repeatable with a change in topic.

Exploration of globalization through its causes and in terms of the economic, cultural and political consequences that have followed. The course approaches this theme from both descriptive and normative perspectives. Topics could include the food revolution and changing global demographics, the internet and its impact on human interaction, climate crisis and global solidarity. May be repeated with change of content.

Introduces students to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Students will engage in the study of LGBTQ identities, communities, cultures, politics, theories, and histories. The course will take an intersectional approach to analyze the social construction of gender, sex, and sexuality in conjunction with race, ethnicity, nation, class, caste, ability, religion, and generation. 

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Advanced study of a specialized topic chosen by the instructor. Cross-listed as WMS 347.

When the subject matter is related to the minor: an examination of the relationship between the woman writer and her work through a study of literature by and about women. Satisfies literature distribution requirement.
Register for this course.

When the subject matter is related to the minor: an examination of the relationship between the woman writer and her work through a study of literature by and about women. Satisfies literature distribution requirement.
Register for this course.

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.
Register for this course.

Research

Research interests

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

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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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