Keya Ganguly

Contact Me

gangu003@umn.edu
612-625-5871

Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
222 Nicholson Hall

216 Pillsbury Dr SE

Affiliations

• Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• Liberal Arts: Moving Image Studies Graduate Minor

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• South Asian film and culture
• Frankfurt school
• sociology of culture
• Marxism
• film and visual studies
• postcolonial theory and criticism

Courses Taught

• CSCL/CL 8910 Dialectics
• CL/CSDS 8910 - Readings in Critical Theory: Walter Benjamin
• CL/CSDS 8910 - Readings in Marx and Marxism
• CL/CSDS 8910 - Readings in the Sociology of Culture: Raymond Williams
• CL/CSDS 5910 - Theories of the Other
• SCMC 5001 - Critical Debates in Cinema and Media Studies
• CSCL/CSDS 5301 - Society, Ideology and the Production of Art
• CSCL 3910/ALL 3920 - The Bombay Social Film of the 1950s
• CSCL 3321W - Theories of Culture
• CSCL1201 - Introduction to Cinema and Media Cultures

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Senior Editor: CULTURAL CRITIQUE:
• Dissertation Grants Reviewer: SSRC: 2003 - 2004

Research

• "Threshold Goddesses: Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray":
• "Nostalgia and the Future: Indian Cinema and the Politics of Sentiment":

Publications

• Ganguly, Keya. Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray. University of California Press, 2010. Link
• Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in 'Charulata'. Ganguly, Keya, 1996.
• Temporality and Postcolonial Critique. Ganguly, Keya, 2004.
• Migrant Identities: Personal Memory and the Construction of Selfhood. Ganguly, Keya, 1992.
• Cinema and Universality: On Satyajit Ray's APUR SANSAR. Ganguly, Keya, Race and Class, Author, 2002.
• Adorno, Authenticity, Critique. Ganguly, Keya, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Awards

• Faculty Sabbatical Supplement Award, 2007 - 2008
• Single Semester Leave, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2004 - 2005
• CSCL Faculty Summer Fellowship, 2003
• Grant-in-Aid of Research, University of Minnesota, 2002 - 2003
• Faculty Research Grant, Humanities Institute, 2002
• Facutly Sabbatical Supplement Award, 2000 - 2001
• President's Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, 1997 - 1999
• McKnight Summer Fellowship and Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 1998