Ajanta Sircar
Ajanta Sircar is Professor, Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. She completed her PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, (1993-97). Her dissertation supervisor was Prof. Laura Mulvey. She is the author of two books: Framing the Nation: Languages of ‘Modernity’ in India, Seagull Books UK in association with Chicago Univ. Press, January 2011 and The Category of Children’s Cinema in India, published by IIAS, Shimla, Oct. 2016, released as part of their “Golden Jubilee Series.” She is also the co-editor of the recently released volume, Contagion Narratives of the Global South, Routledge, Dec, 2022.
