Prof. Anjali Gera Roy

Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities of Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, who works on fiction, film and performance traditions of India, diasporas and Punjab. She is the author of Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan 2015) and Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (Aldershot: Ashgate 2010). She has edited Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era (London: Routledge 2015) and The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad (Delhi: Sage 2012). She has also co-edited (with Chua Beng Huat) The Travels of Indian Cinema: From Bombay to LA (Delhi: OUP 2012) and (with Nandi Bhatia) Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement (Delhi: Pearson Longman 2008). In addition, she has published 100 essays in literary, film and cultural studies. She has been a Baden Wurttemberg Professorial Fellow in the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, a Western Fellow, Visiting University Scholar Program in the University of Western Ontario, London, Senior Visiting Research Fellow & Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Research Institute,National University of Singapore, Senior Research Fellow of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University Canberra.
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