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Dr Anjali Monteiro
M.A. (Pune), Ph.D. (Goa)
Professor, CMCS
e-mail:monteiro[AT]tiss.edu |
Dr. Anjali Monteiro is Professor, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made over 25 documentary films. Their work has been screened extensively at film festivals all over the world and they have won sixteen national and international awards. These include the Prix Futura Berlin 1995 Asia Prize for Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, Best Innovation, Astra Film Festival 1998, Sibiu, Romania for YCP 1997 and the Best documentary award at the IV Three Continents International Festival of Documentaries 2005, Venezuela, for SheWrite. Their most recent awards are the Special Jury Award at the Signs 2007 Festival, held in Thiruvananthapuram, and a Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival 2008, for the film, Our Family and a Special Mention of the Jury for the film Breasts at the Sadho Poetry Fest 2007, New Delhi. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala organised a retrospective of their work in 2006.
Dr. Monteiro is a recipient of the Howard Thomas Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies, and was attached to the University of Western Sydney in 2000. She was a Fulbright visiting lecturer for 2006-07, attached to the University of California, Berkeley. She is visiting faculty at several media and design institutions in India. She is also actively involved in ‘Vikalp' and 'Films for Freedom', which are collectives of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression.
Dr. Monteiro has several papers in the area of media and cultural studies and has contributed to scholarly journals such as Cultural Studies. Her areas of research interest include audience reception of the media, documentary film and censorship.
Her publications include:
Official Television and Unofficial Fabrications of the Self: The Spectator as Subject in Nandy, Ashis (ed.), The Secret Politics of Our Desires, OUP, 1998.
(With K.P. Jayasankar) Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research Hampton Press, 2000
(With K.P. Jayasankar) Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier, 2001
(With K.P. Jayasankar) The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003
With K.P. Jayasankar, Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005
Dr. Monteiro is involved with the following organisations:
Trustee and Member, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual
Resource Centre, Bombay
President’s Nominee, Selection Committee, AJK – MCRC, Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi
Member, Programme Advisory Committee, NCERT, New Delh
Member, Society of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, MICA Communication Review
Member, Academic Council, Tripura University, Agartala
Consultant, UNDP and NDDB