Dr. Anandita Pan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal. She researches and publishes in the areas of Feminist theory, Gender studies, Dalit feminism, Dalit studies, Bengal Partition.
Her book, Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint (Sage-Stree, 2020) explores the ways in which different forms of discrimination combine and overlap, challenging the apparent homogeneity of the categories, ‘woman’ and ‘Dalit’ as seen by mainstream Indian Feminism and Dalit Politics. It discusses at length the contributions of an intersectional standpoint in re-orienting the existing epistemological frameworks of caste and gender. Her recent book Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations (2023) explores what aesthetics can be, reworking classical concepts into a critical toolkit of terms—anger, shock, beauty, form, praxis, and affect.