Usha Iyer

Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Art & Art History (Film & Media Studies), Stanford University

Usha Iyer (2020-21 fellow), assistant professor of film and media studies, is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020), which examines constructions of gender, stardom, sexuality, and spectacle in Hindi cinema through women’s labor, collaborative networks, and gestural genealogies, producing a corporeal history of South Asian cultural modernities. 

SHC Project

Indian Cinema and the Caribbean: Cultural Traffics Across Creolized Cartographies

Usher Iyer