Anu Aneja

Anu Aneja is Director of the Women and Gender Studies program at George Mason University. She also serves as Area Advisor, ‘Gender and Education’ for the digital edition of Oxford Bibliographies. Her current research interests are in the areas of transnational feminist theory and aesthetics, in particular their inventive crossings across South Asia and the west. Other areas of interest include contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures, feminist perspectives on mothering, and feminist pedagogy. She is the co-author (with Shubhangi Vaidya) of Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India (2016). Her edited collections include a comprehensive anthology, Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (2019) that maps the contemporary contours of the field, and an edited volume on Gender & Distance Education: Indian and International Contexts (2019). She has also previously published a Hindustani translation of Hélène Cixous’ French play L’Indiade our l’Inde de leurs rêves.

She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Penn State University and a Bachelor’s in French from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Previously, she has taught in the School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU, where she served as Director from 2015 – 2018, and at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.