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Usha Iyer
Faculty Co-Chair
Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, at Stanford University. She is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her next project studies the affective engagements of Caribbean spectators with Indian cinema and the impact of Caribbean performance cultures on Indian film industries.
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Carmen Thong
Graduate Co-Chair
Carmen Thong is a PhD candidate in English and completing a MA in Public Policy at Stanford University. She works in Postcolonial/World Literature, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Policy. Her current research project looks at how literatures and authors from the Global South are “discovered” within the global literary supply chain. For more information, visit: https://www.carmenthong.com/
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