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Radhika Raghav
Radhika Raghav is a teaching fellow at the Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme at the University of Otago, Dunedin. In her recent history, art history and visual culture doctoral research project, ‘The emergence of the feminine ideal in Indian visual culture, 1880–1945’, she offered a diverse understanding of how visual culture promoted ideals of femininity within a specific historical moment of late colonialism when the nation’s future was under debate. In recognizing the importance of the female media celebrity in cultural production, the project integrated histories of cinematic and pre-cinematic cultural forms. Before commencing her Ph.D. at Otago, Radhika’s MA dissertation, ‘The art of hand-painted film posters’, documented and studied the careers of artists of pre-digital street-corner art in India.
Contact: University of Otago, Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, Division of Social Sciences, 362 Leith Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.