Lakshmi Padmanabhan Read Bio Collapse
Lakshmi Padmanabhan is Assistant Professor of Radio, TV, Film at Northwestern University. Her academic writing is published and forthcoming in journals including Cultural Critique, Camera Obscura, JCMS, Women & Performance, Art History, and New Review of Film and Television. Her essays, criticism, and reviews have been published in Seen, Public Books, Jewish Currents, and Post45. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume Forms of Errantry, on the experimental films of Miryam Charles. Her current book project examines the aesthetics of counter-cinema and the failed dreams of decolonization in India from 1980 to the present.