Shilpaa Anand researches in the interdisciplinary area of disability studies. Her research interests include historiography of disability and culturally different concepts of corporeality. In her doctoral work she explored the conceptual history of disability in the Indian context through a study of archival material and secondary historical sources.
Her papers have been published in edited volumes on disability studies in India and South Asia as well as in scholarly journals. She moderates a lively email list called Disability Studies India and has co-edited multiple issues on disability of the web magazine Cafe Dissensus.
She has an honorary affiliation with the Centre for Disability Studies at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, as Distinguished Research Fellow.
At BPHC she holds the following positions as well:
Member, Institutional Human Ethics Committee
Education
PhD in Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Diploma in Cultural Studies, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore
Diploma in Special Education, K.P.A.M.R.C., Bangalore
M.A. in English, University of Hyderabad
B.A. in Psychology, Literature, and Communicative English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
Previous Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad
Assistant Professor (Temporary, Against Leave Vacancy), Department of English Literature, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad
Guest Faculty, Department of Communication; ELTC, University of Hyderabad
Research Interests
Disability Studies, Health Humanities, Critical Access Studies