Editors’ Introduction: Decolonial Feminisms: In Medias Res Available to Purchase

Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches transnational film and literature. Her research interests span cinema and media studies, sound studies, postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies. She has published widely on the cultural politics of voice and film sound. Her work appears in journals such as Communication, Culture, and Critique; Jump Cut; Meridians; South Asian Popular Culture; the Sounding Out! blog; and various anthologies. On the horizon is a monograph that brings a feminist ear to mainstream Bombay cinema and a co-edited collection, Thinking with an Accent.

Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her first book, Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (2020), approaches film history as an ecology of material practices and practitioners and won an Honorable Mention for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Debashree’s FMH article “Somewhere Between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion” received the 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs award. She is Editor-in-Chief of BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, and her next book narrates an ecomedia history of oceanic migrations and plantation capitalism.