Professor Rijuta Mehta will join Connecticut College’s English Department for the fall 2016 semester. Professor Mehta was hired out of the final four candidates for the Postcolonial and Global Anglophone literatures tenure-track position.
Like other candidates applying for the selective position, Professor Mehta visited Conn to give a presentation to students, faculty and staff on some of her professional work. In February, she presented a talk on her dissertation, “The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions.”
Professor Mehta comes to Conn from Brown University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media. She is also the Deans’ Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown.In addition, Professor Mehta has an M.A. in English from the University of Delhi.
Given Professor Mehta’s interest in the fields of South Asian feminism, postcolonial theory, visual culture, South Asian television and the history of photography, students can expect to learn, contextualize and appreciate English literature through formats that are perhaps less typical than many English classes at Conn. Students will understand literature, media and archives through a holistic lens. •
