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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University (2004)
U of M Affiliation(s)
Department of Screen Arts and Cultures
Center for South Asian Studies
Contact Information
University of Michigan
6566 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-936-2917
Email: mdass@umich.edu |
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Fields of Study
South Asian film and cultural history; comparative film studies; postcolonial studies
About Manishita Dass
Manishita Dass holds a joint appointment in the departments of Screen Arts & Cultures and Asian Languages & Cultures, and teaches courses in South Asian cinema, “world cinema,” film history/theory, and postcolonial studies. Her research interests include early cinema in India and its intersection with other forms of popular culture; the impact of left radicalism on the film cultures of Bombay and Calcutta in the 1940s-1960s; the question of realism in Indian cinema; the cinematic city; transnational cinematic traffic; and the visual and literary worlds of Bengali modernity. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Nation, and Modernity in India, which traces how the space of cinema was imagined in films and in public discourse, in relation to the trope of modernity and the emerging category of the nation, in early-to-mid-twentieth century India.
Professor Dass is one of the project coordinators of Tasveer Ghar, a digital network of South Asian popular visual culture (http://www.tasveerghar.net/index.html). Before coming to the University of Michigan, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Film & Media Studies at Swarthmore College from 2004-2006.
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