|
| |
 |
Dr Anjali Monteiro
M.A. (Pune), Ph.D. (Goa)
Professor, CMCS
e-mail:monteiro[AT]tiss.edu |
Dr. Anjali Monteiro is Professor, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made over 25 documentary films. Their work has been screened extensively at film festivals all over the world and they have won sixteen national and international awards. These include the Prix Futura Berlin 1995 Asia Prize for Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, Best Innovation, Astra Film Festival 1998, Sibiu, Romania for YCP 1997 and the Best documentary award at the IV Three Continents International Festival of Documentaries 2005, Venezuela, for SheWrite. Their most recent awards are the Special Jury Award at the Signs 2007 Festival, held in Thiruvananthapuram, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival 2008, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script and Silver for Editing for the film Our Family. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala organised a retrospective of their work in 2006.
Dr. Monteiro is a recipient of the Howard Thomas Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies, and was attached to the University of Western Sydney in 2000. She was a Fulbright visiting lecturer for 2006-07, attached to the University of California, Berkeley. She is visiting faculty at several media and design institutions in India. She is also actively involved in ‘Vikalp' and 'Films for Freedom', which are collectives of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression.
Dr. Monteiro has several papers in the area of media and cultural studies and has contributed to scholarly journals such as Cultural Studies. Her areas of research interest include audience reception of the media, documentary film and censorship.
Her publications include:
Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, The Spectator-Indian - An Exploratory Study of the Reception of News, Cultural Studies 10(1), January 1993.
Desai , M., Monteiro, A. and Narayan, L. (eds) Towards People-Centred Development, Mumbai, TISS, 1998.
Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, India: The News of the State and the State of the News in Jensen, K.B. (ed.) The News of the World, Routledge, 1998.
Monteiro, A 1998, Official Television and Unofficial Fabrications of the Self: The Spectator as Subject in Nandy, Ashis (ed.), The Secret Politics of Our Desires, OUP
Monteiro, A and Jayasankar, K.P.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2000, Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research, Hampton Press
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2001, Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier, 2001
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2000, Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,)
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2003, The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2005, Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A 2009, Jai Ho Shanghai- The Invisible Poor in Slumdog Millionnaire in Kumar Ashwani et al eds Global Civil Society Yearbook, LSE and Sage
Dr. Monteiro is involved with the following organisations:
Trustee and President, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual Resource Centre, Bombay
Member, Programme Advisory Committee, NCERT, New Delhi
Member, Society of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Creative Communications, Sage
Member, Editorial Board, Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series, Routledge
Member, Academic Council, Tripura University, Agartala
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and National Dairy Development Board
|
|
|
|