Navaneetha Mokkil | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Navaneetha Mokkil

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Women's Studies

School of Social Sciences

Room No

428

Off. Phone

011-26704166

Residence

011-26742818

navaneetha[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, nmokkil[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

PhD English and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010.

Graduate Certificate in Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010.

MA English Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005.

M Phil English Literature, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (now EFLU), Hyderabad, 2003.

MA English Literature, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2001.

BA English Literature, University of Calicut, Calicut, 1999.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Sexuality Studies, Feminist Theory and Methodology, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender and Literary Forms, Theories of Space

Experience

Teaching:

Assistant Professor, Center for Comparative Literature, Central University of Gujarat (2011-2014)

Lecturer, Department of Women’s Studies and Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010-2011)

Graduate Instructor, University of Michigan (2006-2009)

Courses Taught: “Visuality and the Public Sphere”, “Women and World Cinema” , “Introduction to Women’s Studies”, “Traveling Women: Gender and Movement in an Uneven World”, “Rewriting Childhood”, “Literary Theory”, “Modernism and Beyond”, “Public Formations of Sexuality”

Research:

Anveshi Women’s Research Center, Hyderabad, Research Fellow (2003-2004).

Independent research project with Shefali Jha on “Women’s Hostels as Urban Spaces in South India”, Sarai Independent Research Fellowship, CSDS, Delhi (2002-2003).

Awards & Honours

2010: Honorary Mention, Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan.

2009-2010: Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan.

2008-2009: Barbour Scholarship for Women with academic caliber from the Middle-East and Asian Nations, University of Michigan.

2007: Institute for Research on Women and Gender Graduate Student Research Award, University of Michigan.

2007-2008: Distinguished Faculty/Student Lecture Series Grant at the University of Michigan.

2007: Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan.

2005-2006: Rackham International Students Fellowship, University of Michigan.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

None, at present.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

2019: “Anxieties of Seeing: The Sensational World of Cinema, Digital Media and Politics.” BioScope 9 (2): 165-183.

2018: “Visual Practices, Affect, and the Body: The Story of a Night-Vigil in Kerala, India.”Women’s Studies Quarterly46 (3-4): 158-174.

2018: “Modernity’s Nightmares: Narrating Sexuality in Kerala,” in Exploring Indian Modernities: Ideas and Practices. Eds., Leila Choukroune and Parul Bhandari. Singapore: Springer Nature, 231-252.

2018: “Queer Encounters: Film Festivals and the Sensual Circuits of European Cinema in India”. Studies in European Cinema, 15 (1): 85-100.

2009: “Shifting Spaces, Frozen Frames: Trajectories of Queer Politics in Contemporary India”. Inter Asia Cultural Studies 10 (1): 12-30.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

2019: Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala. 2019. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

2019: Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader (Co-Edited with Shefali Jha). Kolkata: Stree Samya Publishers.

2019: “Xavier Dolan in India: The Alchemy of Film Viewing,” in ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan. Ed. Andree Lafontaine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 156-176.

Patents (if any)