About

Anupama Arora, PhD

Department Profile

 

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.

 

Teaching

 

ENL 331: Postcolonial Literature
ENL/WGS 347: Special Topics in Women’s Literature
ENL 377/WGS 349: Gender and Sexuality in Bollywood Films
ENL 200 (topics include: Global Women Writers; Imagining India: Literature and Film; Shakespeare Meets Bollywood).