FLEFF 25th Anniversary: A Conversation with Pavitra Sundar, IC alum and Film and Media Scholar

By Patricia Zimmermann, March 24, 2022

Leah Shafer in conversation with Pavitra Sundar, probing sound studies, postcolonial cinemas, and gender sexuality studies. This event is a collaboration between FLEFF, Conversations Across Screen Cultures, and F2F: Feminist to Feminist

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Mar 25, 2022 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
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Pavitra Sundar is associate professor of literature at Hamilton College. Her scholarly interests span cinema studies, sound studies, postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and gender-sexuality studies. Her scholarship appears in MeridiansJump CutCommunication, Culture, and Critique; and the Sounding Out!  blog, as well as other journals and anthologies. 

Deeply committed to collaborative research and teaching, Pavitra co-organized faculty-staff seminar on sound studies with Celeste Day Moore (History), and a film festival and symposium on Indian cinema at the George Eastman Museum with Anaar Desai-Stephens (Eastman School of Music).

Sundar's co-edited work includes a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture on “Masculinities” with Praseeda Gopinath (Binghamton University) and an upcoming special issue of Feminist Media Histories, co-edited with Debashree Mukherhee (Columbia), on "Decolonial Feminisms." 

She is a founding member of the Accent Research Collaborative, and is co-editing a collection of essays Thinking with an Accent: Through Voice, Across Media (University of California Press, Forthcoming) with Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Akshya Saxena. Also on the horizon is her monograph Listening with a Feminist East: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema (University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming).

Sundar is an Ithaca College alum, with a degree in Psychology and English. She earned her joint Ph.D. in Women's Studies and English from the University of Michigan.

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