nilanjana bhattacharjya

honors faculty fellow and principal lecturer

About

“Doubling Offscreen and Onscreen: Queering the Star and the Fan in Fan,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 58, No. 1-2 (Spring/Fall 2017), pp. 161-172 Co-editor with Peter Kvetko, South Asian Popular Culture Special Music Issue, Vol. 10, No. 3, October 2012 “A Productive Distance from the Nation: Uday Shankar and the Defining of Indian Modern Dance,” South Asian History and Culture Volume 2, no. 4 (2011): 482-501 "Popular Hindi Film Song Sequences Set in the Indian Diaspora and the Negotiating of Indian Identity " Asian Music 40, no. 1 (2009): 53-82. With Monika Mehta. "From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic and Musical Tours." In Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, edited by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, 105-31. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2008. Specialties: popular music, ethnomusicology, South Asia, diasporic musics, music and immigration

Country

united states

City

tempe

Industry

higher education

Skill

teaching, higher education, editing, university teaching, research, music, curriculum development, public speaking, student affairs, student development, curriculum design, qualitative research, community outreach, ethnomusicology, film, proofreading, academic writing, south asia, literature, college teaching, program evaluation, tutoring

Experience

honors faculty fellow and principal lecturer

barrett, the honors college

2020-8 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

assistant professor

colorado college

2006-9 - 2012-5 · 5 yrs 9 mos

instructor

colorado college

2004-9 - 2006-8 · 2 yrs

five college fellow

mount holyoke college

2003-9 - 2004-7 · 11 mos

instructor, john s knight institute for writing in the disciplines

cornell university

2001-1 - 2003-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

For first-year students, the Institute offers First-Year Writing Seminars in one of the country's largest and most diverse programs in writing in the disciplines: each semester, over 100 different courses are taught in more than 30 departments and programs located in the humanities, social sciences, expressive arts, and sciences. Through introductory work in each seminar's particular field of study, students learn to write in a range of genres and in ways that emphasize clarity, coherence, intellectual force, and stylistic control.