Ship of Theseus Film Screening and Discussion

Megha Anwer

Purdue University

Megha Anwer is Assistant Vice Provost for Research and Scholar Development at Purdue’s John Martinson Honors College and Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of English. She is a theorist of literature and visual culture. Her research areas include contemporary postcolonial literature, global cinema, Victorian literature and visual culture. Her co-authored book, Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India, published by University of Michigan Press came out in 2025. She also has a co-edited volume, Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies (Rutgers UP, 2021).

In her courses, Dr. Anwer invites students to engage with literary and visual cultural productions—literature, film, photography, digital media, popular culture. She treats the classroom as an investigative pathway into the world, where students can better understand its complexity and their individual and collective place within it. She encourages students to explore the interconnected of ideas, trace how ideas travel and morph, to revisit the past, re-see the present, and imagine new configuration of the future.