Contact
Primary Phone: +1 2067784336
School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
Box 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell
WA
98011-8246
United States
ABOUT
Alka Kurian is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Bothell and a recipient of the 2020-2021 Fulbright US Scholar award to Morocco. She is the author of Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas (Routledge: 2014) and a co-editor of New Feminisms in South Asia: Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film and Literature (Routledge: 2017). She is currently working on her third book Transnational Fourth Wave Feminisms: A Postcolonial Backlash (forthcoming 2023 Routledge). She has published extensively on South Asian film and feminism and was the founder-co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Alka Kurian is the board president of Tasveer, director of the Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival, and host of the podcast South Asian Films & Books.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
African Studies
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Human Rights
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Sexuality
South Asian Studies
Transnationalism
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Afghanistan
China
India
Europe
Iran
Maghreb
Morocco
North America
Pakistan
Tunisia
Specialties
Fourth-wave Feminism
Postcolonial Literature
South Asian Film And Literature
Languages
English (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hindi (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| Media and Cultural Studies
| University of Sunderland
Abstracts
Fourth Wave Feminism In Morocco
