feminist

Her research on the globalizing of Bollywood attends to the rise of Bollywood since economic liberalization in India, the corresponding formation and development of new genres such as NRI or Non-Resident Indian films, the transnational circulation and reception of popular Hindi films within diasporas, and the fluid and heterogeneous relationships between Bollywood and its audiences. She moves beyond textual analysis of what diaspora means in the films, to understand what the films do in diaspora, i.e., to analyze the presence, function, and influence of Bollywood in diaspora.

Jessica Horvath Williams is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Minnesota. She teaches and researches at the crossroads of 19^th century U.S. Literature and feminist disability studies, with emphases on questions of women’s writing, domestic labor, and literary form. She is a Black, queer, femme, first-generation, autistic activist and educator in the Twin Cities, who works with healthcare professionals on disability issues, and their intersections of these issues with race, gender/sexuality, and citizenship.

Angela M. Carter is one of the founding members of the CDSC and is currently the Associate Director of Racial and Social Justice Education for the Office for Equity and Diversity. As a Ronald E. McNair scholar, Angela M. Carter (she/her) became a first-generation college graduate by earning her BA in English from Truman State University in 2009. In 2019, Dr. Carter completed her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota.