Dr Anandi Rao

Anandi Rao is Lecturer in South Asian Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
 

Her research lies at the intersection of literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial studies and translation studies. Her work has been published in South Asian Review, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Shakespeare Bulletin and edited volumes on Romeo and Juliet published by Arden Bloomsbury and the volume Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation published by Palgrave.

Her short book project titled Hindi Shakespeare in Colonial India that looks at two translations of Shakespeare's plays from 1915 through a critical caste studies and a critical race studies lens. She has articles/book chapters in progress on an ecocritical analysis of a translation of Macbeth, a reading of the novel Pride, Prejudice and other Flavors through an anti-caste lens and articles thinking with translation as a hauntology.

Other projects include work on graphic novels, critical disability studies, and theatre studies.

South Asian literature and film, translation, postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality studies