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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.
Podcast interview on the monograph with the New Books Network.
"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.