Anita Mannur Professor CAS | CRGC | Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies
- Degrees
- BA: University of Wisconsin Madison (Comparative Literature)
PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst (Comparative Literature) - Bio
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Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ literature, food studies, transnational South Asia, fashion studies and race and gender studies. She is the author of two monograph, Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (Temple University Press, 2010) and Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Duke University Press 2022). She has co-edited several collections including Theorizing Diaspora (2005), Eating Asian America (2010) and Eating More Asian America (2025). Her work appears in several journals including Â鶹´«Ã½ Quarterly, Cultural Studies, MELUS, Journal of Intercultural Studies, the Journal of Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies, Gastronomica, Amerasia Journal. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies and was the 2012 recipient of the Early Career Award from the Association of Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies and the 2019 winner of the Excellence in Mentoring Award, also from the Association for Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies.
At AU, she teaches courses in Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Studies in South Asian popular culture, food and race and Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ literature
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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AMST-260 Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ Experiences
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LIT-381 Topics in Cultural Studies: Food and Race in Asian America