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Prof. Shilpaa Anand

Head & Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Critical Access Studies, Disability Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Publications

Chapters in Book Volumes

  • Anand, Shilpaa. (2025)  “The Faces of Ableism: Encountering Disgust in Rashid Jahan's "Woh"". Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: A Primer ed. Someshwar Sati. New Delhi: Worldview: 340-351.

    Jahan, Rashid. (2025) “Woh (That Woman)”. trans. Shilpa Anand and Aneesa Mushtaq. Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: A Primer ed. Someshwar Sati. New Delhi: Worldview: 190-194.

  • Anand, Shilpaa (2024) 'Clinical Rescripts: Recovering the Affective Politics of Medicalising Women's Bodies' in in Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture, Ed. Someshwar Sati. 2024: Bloomsbury. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2021) 'Entangled Genealogies of Religion and Disability: Exploring a Discursive Dependence." De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries. Ed. Jibu Mathew George. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Authorspress.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2020) ‘Rethinking Monsters: Teaching Disability Studies Through History and the Humanities’ in Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Ed. Nilika Mehrotra. Springer. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) ‘Translating Rhetoricity and Everyday Experiences of Disablement: The Case of Rashid Jahan’s ‘Woh’’ in Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience, Eds. Someshwar Sati and G.J.V.Prasad. Routledge.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019). Entry on Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir by Madan Vasishta. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) 'Corporeality and Cultural Difference' in Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience, Ed. Anita Ghai. Sage: New Delhi. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2018) ‘From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally’, Review of film Margarita with a Straw in Beginning with Disability:A Primer, Ed. Lennard Davis. Routledge: New York. (Reprint)
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2017) ‘Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula’s Chuhas’ in Bioarcheology of Impairment and Disability, Eds. Jennifer Byrnes and Jennifer Muller. Springer: New York.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) 'The Models Approach in Disability Scholarship: An assessment of its failings' in Interrogating Disability in India, Ed. Nandini Ghosh. Springer, New Delhi. 
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2015) ‘Disability and Modernity: Bringing disability studies to literary research in India’ in South Asia and Disability Studies: Redefining boundaries and extending horizons, Ed. Shridevi Rao and Maya Kalyanpur. Peter Lang: New York.
  • Anand, Shilpaa. (2015) ‘Corporeality and Culture: Theorizing Difference in the South Asian Context’ in South Asia and Disability Studies: Redefining boundaries and extending horizons, Ed. Shridevi Rao and Maya Kalyanpur. Peter Lang: New York.
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2013) ‘Historicizing Disability in India: Questions of Subject and Method’ in Disability Studies in India: Global Discourse, Local Realities, Ed. Renu Addlakha. Routledge: London.
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2012) ‘Leprosy: Disabling Disease or Disabling Discourse’ in Dalits and Marginalization, Ed. J. Bheemaiah.

Publications in Journals and Conferences

  • Hrittika Bhowmick, Atharva Shrivastava, Sandeep Ysp, Shilpaa Anand, and Dipanjan Chakraborty. (2025) . Crippin' WhatsApp’s Interaction Design: Learnings from the blind/visually impaired users of India. In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 62, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663547.3746389
  • Bhowmick, Hrittika, and Shilpaa Anand. (2025) "The Spectacle of Fidelity: Blind Resistance and the Wizardry of Prototyping." arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09549. [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.09549]
  • Anand, Shilpaa and Meghana Rao (2024) “Reasonable Accommodation and Interdependence: Revisiting the Dynamics of Disability Inclusion in Higher Education in India.” Journal of Gender Studies 34 (2): 206–18. doi:10.1080/09589236.2024.2365209.
  • Nguyen, Anand and Padilla (2024) " Editorial: Thinking with Decolonial Disability Studies",  special issue on Global South and Disability of Review of Disability Studies 19 (3 & 4) : Issue-in-a-minute video introduction! 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2023) Review of Thinking Women edited by Navaneetha Mokkil and Shefali JhaIndian Journal of Gender Studies 30:2 (pp. 236-239).
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2022) 'Advertising as Activism: Exploring an Aesthetics of Debility in Kashmiri Human Rights CampaignsJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies Vol. 16: 4. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2022) 'Conceptual and Political Lives of Reasonable Accommodation in India', Proceedings of Disability at the Intersection of History, Culture, Gender, Religion and Health. Ed. Enaya Hammad Othman, 5 April 2022. Marquette University (https://epublications.marquette.edu/icdi? utm_source=epublications.marquette.edu%2Ficdi%2F2022%2FPostconference%2F1&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) Review of Notes on the Flesh by Shahd Alshammari. Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 5:1 (online)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2018) ‘Between Being Sighted and Being Sightly: Tracing the Proverbial ‘One-Eyed King’, Diotima’s: A Journal of New Readings Vol.8 (pp.27-38)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) 'From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally' Review of Margarita with a StrawGirlhood Studies 9:1 (pp.142-146)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) Review of Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power by Asha Hans, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 23:3 (pp. 485-488).
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2016) ‘Narrating ‘Normal’: Jerry Pinto and the “Identical Paper Dolls”’, Impressions of Eternity:Journal of Language and Literature Studies Vol.16 (pp. 148-154).
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2015) ‘Worth an Arm and a Leg: Disability and Intimacy in the Making of Madurai Veeran’. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 20:1 (pp.55-73)
  • Anand, Shilpaa. (2014) ‘Of Pity, Fear and Other Tragic Prosthetics’.  MAJELL (Maulana Azad Journal of English Language and Literature) 6:1(pp.38-50)
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2009) Review of Disability and Impairment: Working with Children and Families by Peter Burke, Journal of Family Communication 9:2 (pp.129-130)
 
Other Publications
 
'Ableism and the Trouble with Merit' in Third Eye. March 2023. 
 

Co-editor of the web magazine, Café Dissensus annual issue on disability:

2016 Disability and the Other Margins

2015 Disability: Art and Culture

2014 Debating the Disability Law in India 

 
Entry in Medico Friend Circle Bulletin'Disability Legislation and Mental Illness: What the stakes are', (March-October, 2015) 
 
Contribution to Teacher Plus magazine: