Faculty
Sumita Chakravarty
Associate Professor; Associate Dean
- PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Communications)
- PhD,
Lucknow University, India (English)
Cultural
theorist, author and editor; essays in several anthologies, including Terrorism, Media, Liberation (2005), Rethinking Third Cinema (2003), and
Redirecting the Gaze (Routledge, 1998). She holds a joint appointment with
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, where she served as chair
of Culture and Media from 2000-2008.
Courses Taught
- World Film Cultures: Stardom
- Media Attractions
- Globalization
and Media
- Immediacy:
Online Journal
- Introduction
to Cultural Studies
- Introduction to Media Studies
- Third
World Cinema
- Media and Immigration
Recent Publications
- “Globalization” in Encyclopedia
of Media and Communication, edited by Marcel Danesi. Toronto, Canada:
University of Toronto Press, 2010 (in press).
- “Cultural Studies Legacies: Visiting James Carey’s Border
Country.” Invited essay for commemorative issue on James Carey in Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies
(Summer 2009).
- “Some Thoughts on Teaching Bollywood Cinema.” Invited essay
for ‘In Focus’ section of Cinema Journal (Fall
2007).
- “The Erotics of History: Gender and Transgression in New
Asian Cinemas” in Rethinking Third Cinema,
eds. Anthony Guneratne and Wimal Dissanayake (London: Routledge, 2003).
- “Fragmenting the Nation: Images of Terrorism in Indian
Popular Cinema” in Cinema and Nation:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nationalism and National Identity, eds.
Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie (London: Routledge, 2000). Included in Terrorism, Media, Liberation, ed. David Slocum (Rutgers University
Press, 2005).
- Editor of The Enemy Within: The Films of Mrinal Sen (London: Flicks
Books, 2000)
- National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema (University of Texas Press, 1993)
Research Interests
Working on two monographs: (1) a cultural history of immigration; and (2)
a study of the intersections of the erotic and technology
