Rochona Majumdar

Cinema and Media Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Media Arts and Design. Expected start date July 1, 2026.
Please apply via apply.interfolio.com/174509 Deadline: October 23, 2025 by 10:59 PM (CST)

"EOE/Vet/Disability".

Mother Mary Comes to Me Review by Rochona Majumdar Arundhati Roy. Mother Mary Comes to Me. Scribner, 2025. pp. 352. US $ 30.00.Two caveats. First, this article has spoilers. If you have not already read Arundhati Roy’s memoi...

www.frontierweb.in/post/mother-...

Save the date for some very special films and excellent discussions

Wonderful review Mou and so well deserved.

Why Area Studies Matters (opinion) If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Trump administration plans to limit how long foreign students can study in the US Foreign students have been allowed to stay in the country for as long as they were full-time students making progress in their degrees.

Wonder if this will make the US education system more like the UK?
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Please apply 📢The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago invite applications for a one-year position as Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi apply.interfolio.com/171413 "EOE/Vet/Disability"