Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3538
Email
ara5@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal is a film and media historian. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-DFG "Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe" project, a collaboration between the University of St Andrews and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century British educational and visual culture, non-theatrical film and media, film technologies, science and cinema, colonial cinema, media materiality.

Anushrut's current book project, Watch and Learn: Film and British Education c.1900 examines how cinema and other media technologies, such as the magic lantern and print, shaped early-twentieth-century British education. Based on extensive archival research, he explores the socio-cultural, economic, intellectual, and technological reasons that governed the media use of institutions of scientific and religious education.

Building on his research Anushrut works on the history of the filmstrip as an instructional and political media technology. He is currently also researching glass as a media object. Here he is examining what the material and metaphorical uses of glass in British screen media – film, television, digital media – reveal about the class hierarchies, colonial legacies, gender discriminations, and environmental degradations embedded within British visual culture.

Anushrut is also a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy, and previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at St Andrews (2023-2025). He has also delivered guest lectures and led seminars at other Universities, such as Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and Jamia Milia Islamia and St Stephens College in India.

Selected publications

 

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