Neepa Majumdar

  • Associate Professor

Neepa Majumdar is an Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies. Her research interests include star studies, film sound, South Asian early cinema, documentary film, and questions of film history and historiography.  Her book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s (University of Illinois Press, 2009) won an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Best First Book Award of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays have appeared in The Canadian Journal of Film StudiesSouth Asian Popular Culture, and Post Script, as well as collections such as The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and Visual Media (ed. Graeme Harper, 2009), Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (ed. R. L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Gieger, 2005), and Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, (ed. Arthur Knight and Pamela Wojcik, 2001).