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Prof. Shilpaa Anand

Head & Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
PhD in Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago - 2009
Diploma in Cultural Studies, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore - 2003
Diploma in Special Education, K.P.A.M.R.C., Bangalore - 2001
M.A. in English, University of Hyderabad - 2000
B.A. in Psychology, Literature and Communicative English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore - 1998
Hyderabad Campus

Critical Access Studies, Disability Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities

About the Faculty

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,  Academic Counselling Board

Member, Academic Counselling Cell

Member, Institutional Human Ethics Committee