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Aniruddha (Ani) Maitra
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
PhD, Brown University, 2013; MA, Jadavpur University, 2005; BA, Jadavpur University, 2003
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
Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Podcast interview on the monograph with Ideas on Fire available here .
Podcast interview on the monograph with the New Books Network available here.
"What Does It Mean to 'Sound Gay'?: The Accented (Voice) as Surplus Jouissance" in Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice, ed. Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023), 266-280.
"Of Mimicry and Identity: A Brief Genealogy," Effects 3 (2022): 98-112.
"Aberrant Narcissisms in Dolto, Lacan, and Fanon: Notes on a Wounded Imaginary," differences 28, no. 3 (2017): 93-135.
“What’s ‘in’?: Disaggregating Asia through New Media Actants,” co-authored with Rey Chow, in Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), 17-27.
“Touching Hearts: The Uncertain but Strategic Politics of the Fifth Mumbai International Queer Film Festival,”Film Quarterly 69, no. 2 (2015): 60-65.
“In the Shadow of the Homoglobal: Queer Cosmopolitanism in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone,” Jindal Global Law Review 4, no. 2 (2013): 239-267.
Reprint in New Intimacies/ Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times, ed. Oishik Sircar and Dipika Jain (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017), 317-350.
“Confessions of the (Ethnic) Narcissist: Intermedia in Diaspora,” South Asian Popular Culture 8 (2010): 143-162.
Reprint in InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen, ed. Rajinder Dudrah, Amit Rai, and Anustup Basu (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 38-57.
“Hearing Queerly: Musings on the Ethics of Disco/sexuality,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 25 (2011): 375-396.
“Why isn’t Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy?: Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.’s And I Do Survive,”Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 25 (2010): 183-195.
“The Flight of the Eunuch: Mapping Homotextualities in South Asian Diaspora Literature,” Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, ed. Kaustav Bakshi and Samrat Sengupta (New Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2008), 91-113.
"Are We Also Ready to Confront the Wages of Complicity?" New Politics, June 16, 2020
"COVID-19 and the neoliberal state of exception," Al Jazeera, March 29, 2020.
"CNN in North Korea: Liberal Democracy and Ethnonationalism," Counterpunch, December 1, 2017.