Neepa Majumdar

Associate Professor of English

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Neepa Majumdar is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies. Her research interests include star studies, film sound, South Asian early cinema, documentary film, and questions of film history and historiography. Her book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s (University of Illinois Press, 2009) won an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Best First Book Award of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays have appeared in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Post Script, as well as collections such as The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and Visual Media (ed. Graeme Harper, 2009), Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (ed. R. L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Gieger, 2005), and Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, (ed. Arthur Knight and Pamela Wojcik, 2001).

Teaching

Graduate Courses

Indian Cinema: Questions of Mass Culture and         Transnational Cinemas

Film Sound: History, Theory, Aesthetics

War and Cinema

Film History/Theory

Film and Ethnography

Undergraduate Courses

Film Analysis

World Film History

Documentary Film

Film and Politics

Contemporary Film

The War Film

The Star System and the Movies

Film Directors: Spike Lee

Bollywood and Indian Cinema

Film Sound

Advanced Seminar in Film Studies

Film Series Organized

Travelling Film South Asia: A Festival of Documentary Films

Film Views: Bollywood and Indian Films about Films

Entertainment and Anxiety: A Festival of Indian Cinema

Other Duties & Service

Member, Film Studies Program Committee
Member, Graduate Procedures Committee
Member, Ad hoc Committee on the Graduate Program
Member, Strategic Planning Committee
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

Member, Personnel Committee
Elected Member, Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Council
Elected Member, University Faculty Assembly
Member, Program Committee, Society for Cinema and Media    Studies