Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

Anjali Prabhu is an associate professor of French and Francophone Studies and serves on the Advisory Board of Cinema and Media Studies at Wellesley College, where she has been the Whitehead Chair in Critical Thought (2007-2009). Her first book, Hybridity: Revisions, Transformations, Prospects, was published in 2007. Her second book, Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora, is forthcoming with Wiley Blackwell Press. She has served on the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Post-colonial Division. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Diacritics, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Research in African Literatures, and The International Journal of Francophone Studies.