Name: Aniruddha Dutta

Curriculum Vitae

Mailing Address: 2104 Harriet Ave S

Apt. # 203

Minneapolis

MN 55405

E-mail: ,

Educational qualifications

At present pursuing PhD in Feminist Studies with minor in Development Studies and Social Change at the University of Minnesota.

Year / Institution / Qualification / Grade
(In %tages or as per Univ. system) / Divisions awarded if any
2009 / University of Minnesota / M.A. in Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media / Projected for completion in Fall 2009 / --
2007 / Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India / M.A. Literature / 76% / 1st
2005 / St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India / B.A. (Honors) in English / 60% / 1st

Awards and Fellowships

2009, ICGC Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2007 (ongoing),ICGC MacArthur Scholars Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.
2007, University Endowment Medal for best performance in M.A. (Literature), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2005, Department of English prize for overall achievement, St. Stephen’s College.
2005, UJF Bank Scholarship from the English (Hon.s) course, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India

Publications

2009, “Nation, Liberalisation and Film Songs: Technology and Hybridisation in Contemporary Hindi Film Music” in Wide Screen Vol. 1(1)
2008, “Narratives of Excess and Exclusion: Nationhood, Class and Queerness in the Indian English-Language Press” in Kuntsman, A. and Miyake, E. (ed.s) Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality. Raw Nerve Books: York.
2008, “Kotis and Sexual Politics in Eastern India” in Samar, issue 30:1
2002 -2007: Many journalistic/activist articles on issues related to gender and sexuality published in college journals of St. Stephen’s College and Jadavpur University, on media-analysis websites ( and and in the Indian print media (The Statesman, The Indian Express).

Conference Presentations

2009, “The Spaces Between MSM and TG: Vernacular Locations within NGO Networks in West Bengal” at The State of Sexuality, Feminist Pre-conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison
2009, “Between NGOs and Unruly Subjects: Disciplined Activism and Sites of Resistance in the GLBT movement in Eastern India” at Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2009, “The Labors of the Vernacular: The Sexual Politics of the Kothi” at Queertopia, Northwestern University, Chicago.
2008, “Sexual Politics at the borders of classes, communities and genders: Mapping lower middle class sexual dissidence in Eastern India”atDisjunctions Graduate Students’ conference at University of California, Riverside.
2008, “Negotiating a Newer Hybridity: Bollywood Film Music in the Period of Liberalization”

at International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Singapore.

2007, “Fashioning Jewishness in Alienation: Schoenberg and the Problematic Modernity of Twelve Tone Music” at Events, Encounters, Accidents: National Students’ Conference, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
2006, “India/West to Bharat/India: Sexuality and Queerness in contemporary urban Indian media” at Out of place: Interrogating silences in Queerness/Raciality (Workshop), Lancaster University, UK.
2006, “The Gendered Politics in the Roopkatha Genre” at the Gender, Genre, Representation seminar in Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Work experience

September 2008 to May 2009: Graduate Instructor, Hindi 1101 and 1102, University of Minnesota
January 2007 to May 2007: Project Coordinator for SAATHII (Solidarity and Action against the HIV Infection in India), Kolkata, India.
May 2006 to May 2007: Organizing Member of the “Drishtikone Media Advocacy Front”, a coalition of NGOs in Kolkata, India, which tracks media representation of issues relating to sexuality, HIV-AIDS, and sexual minorities.
June 2005 to May 2006: Sub-Editor for the newspaper The Indian Express at Kolkata, India.
May to July 2004: Volunteer in a CRY (Child Relief and You) project in Sarkarbagan, a brothel area north of Kolkata, India.

Creative work: Music and related media

In 2007, ‘Structure and Song’, a piece for solo piano, was selected out of a competition to be performed by pianist Shannon Wettstein at the American Composers’ Forum’s special Tuesday Salon featuring Zeitgeist, on Dec 18 at St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 2007, my paper and presentation on Schoenberg’s music, “Fashioning Jewishness in Alienation: Schoenberg and the Problematic Modernity of Twelve Tone Music”, was adjudged the best entry in the competitive section of the national student conference on modernities and representation, “Events, Encounters, Accidents”, held on February 15, 2007, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
In 2006, my composition “Drowning Recollected” scored for tape and MIDI devices was selected and featured online in the ‘Memoryscapes’ edition (edition IV) of Soundlab, an online installation cum exhibition of sound-art selected out of an international competition,available at A revised version of this piece, with live reciter added, was performed at the 3-1-3-6 concert on October 24, 2007 at Minneapolis.
From 2003 to 2005, I was involved in training the College SATB Choir of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India, for its annual and Christmas concerts. I also sang as bass in the choir for the period.
In September 2004, an installation of my songs and poems was displayed at Jagah, an exhibition on issues of gender and sexuality, in Delhi, India.
From 2003 to 2005, I was member and subsequently joint secretary of Cine Club, the film society of St. Stephen’s College, and in that capacity I organized workshops with producers and filmmakers on independent filmmaking and video production, as well as screenings, talks and panel discussions highlighting socio-political aspects of cinema.
My poetry has been published in the journal Scripts, published from Mumbai, India, twice (in July 2007 and May 2006), as well as Corpus (2008), the journal of the Aids Project Los Angeles.
From 1997 to 2002, I was a coordinator for Voices, the youth supplement of the national newspaper The Statesman, published from Kolkata, India. In that capacity I worked for organizing musical and cultural events, and published both fiction and non-fiction in the newspaper.]

Languages known

English – fluent, reading, writing and speaking (educational medium in all institutions attended)
Bengali – fluent, reading, writing and speaking (native tongue)
Hindi – reading, speaking and writing
French – reading