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Pavitra Sundar


Pavitra Sundar

Associate Professor of Literature, Hamilton College

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Pavitra Sundar writes and teaches about film, literature, and sound, with a focus on South Asia. Her research interests span cinema and media studies, postcolonial literary and cultural studies, sound studies, and women’s and gender studies. Sundar’s monograph Listening with a Feminist Ear (University of Michigan Press, 2023, open access) is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in Bombay cinema. Her writing also appears in journals such as Communication, Culture, and Critique; Jump Cut; Meridians; and South Asian Popular Culture; the Sounding Out! blog; and various anthologies.