Nilanjana Bhattacharjya
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Sage South 165 Tempe, AZ 85281
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Mail code: 1612Campus: Tempe
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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya's research focuses on popular music, film, and visual culture from South Asia and its diasporic communities. She is affiliated with the Center for Asian Research and the South Asia Council at ASU. Her articles and essays appear in journals including Asian Music, Framework, and South Asian History and Culture as well as in the edited collections Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance; South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century; and Writing About Screen Media. In fall 2012, she co-edited with Peter Kvetko the first ever issue of the journal South Asian Popular Culture devoted entirely to music.
She is presently focusing on the changing status of the film song sequence in contemporary Hindi films. She has published previously on the dancer Uday Shankar's reception in India and abroad as well on the circulation of Hindi film music, particularly in diasporic contexts. More recently she has published pieces on the circulation of Netflix India's Love Stories, the queer relationships between the fan and star in the film Fan, and writing about sound and narrative. Upcoming publications will feature music and art in London's Bangladeshi communities as well as the circulation of South Asian dance music in the diaspora.
- Ph.D. Musicology, Cornell University
- M.A. Musicology, Cornell University
- B.A. Music, Wellesley College
- "Mixing industrial elements, generating sexual agency in Aiyyaa," co-authored with Monika Mehta. In Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India: Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media. Eds. Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee (Delhi: Routledge India, 2020).
- "How sound helps tell a story: Sound, music, and narrative in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara. In Writing About Screen Media.. (New York: Routledge University Press, 2019), pp.149-153.
- "Streaming, Women's Desire, and the Display of Pleasure," in Lust Stories: A Dossier. In Quorum, Film Quarterly, 2019.
- "Doubling Offscreen and Onscreen: Queering the Star and the Fan in Fan." Framework Volume 58, nos. 1 and 2 (2017): 161-172.
- Co-editor (with Peter Kvetko), South Asian Popular Culture, “The Music Issue,” Volume 10, no. 3 (2012).
- “Editorial – The Music Issue,” with Peter Kvetko, South Asian Popular Culture, Volume 10, no. 3 (2012): 219-221.
- (Reprint) “A Productive Distance from the Nation: Uday Shankar and the Defining of Indian Modern Dance,” In South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the 20th Century, Ed. Babli Sinha (New Delhi: Routledge, 2012), pp. 41-70.
- “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 Volume 40, no. 1 (2009): 53-82.
- “From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Musical and Cinematic Tours,” co-written with Monika Mehta. In Planet Bollywood: The Transnational Travels of Hindi Song-and-Dance Sequences , Eds. Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp.105-131.
Group Research Project: Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona State University
10/1/16 → 9/30/19
- US Department of Education (DOEd): $185,047.00
Courses
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Spring
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HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
2018 Fall
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HON 370 | History of Ideas |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
2018 Spring
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HON 272 | The Human Event |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 272 | The Human Event |
2017 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |
HON 171 | The Human Event |