Women's and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367202347)

Anu Aneja is Professor at the School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India, and is currently Associate Editor for Gender and Education. She taught for several years at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA, where she was the recipient of the Rebecca Brown Professor of Literature award. She was awarded the Beatrice B. Maines fellowship for research in women's studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include feminist theory and aesthetics; contemporary French, francophone and Indian women writers; feminist perspectives on mothering; and feminist pedagogy. Her publications have appeared in various international journals. She is the author of Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India (co-authored with Shubhangi Vaidya, 2016) and the editor of Gender and Distance Education: Indian and International Contexts (2019). She has previously served as Chairperson, Department of Humanities and Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University; and Director, School of Continuing Education, and Director, School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU. She has also served on the editorial team of the Indian Journal of Open Learning, IGNOU.