Saumya Malhotra
Communication Studies
Room 275 Ford Hall
224 Church St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Collegiate Affiliation
Ph.D. Student,
Graduate Instructor ,
Graduate Minor,
I study material cultures and aesthetics in the contemporary Indian landscape to facilitate conversations between post-/anti-/de-colonialism, science and technology studies, and critical futurities. Inspired by intersectional feminist, land-based, anti-occupation, crip, and queer epistemologies, I unsettle and expand upon theories of affect, so-called new materialism, and critical posthumanism. Through a multi-modal, participatory, and artistic-research and pedagogy, I also experiment building conditions for liberatory futures within and beyond the classroom and academic community.
Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- MA: Humanities , The University of Chicago
Specialties
- New Media Technologies
- Critical/Cultural Studies
- Intersectional Materialism
- Critical Futurities
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