Anupama Arora

faculty

Anupama Arora, PhD she/her/hers

Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-910-6520

508-999-9235

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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

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Intensive and critical reading of a major author with attention to cultural contexts. Selected author will vary and be identified each time the course is scheduled. Course may be repeated with change of author.

The particular topic of each seminar is announced immediately before each registration period.

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. 

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

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

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

Intensive and critical reading of a major author with attention to cultural contexts. Selected author will vary and be identified each time the course is scheduled. Course may be repeated with change of author.

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. 
Register for this course.

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