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Prof. Shilpaa Anand

Head & Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Disability Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Publications

Chapters 

  • Anand, Shilpaa (2022) 'Conceptual and Political Lives of Reasonable Accommodation in India', Proceedings of Disability at the Intersection of History, Culture, Gender, Religion and Health. Ed. Enaya Hammad Othman, 5 April 2022. Marquette University (https://epublications.marquette.edu/icdi? utm_source=epublications.marquette.edu%2Ficdi%2F2022%2FPostconference%2F1&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2021) 'Entangled Genealogies of Religion and Disability: Exploring a Discursive Dependence." De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries. Ed. Jibu Mathew George. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Authorspress.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2020) ‘Rethinking Monsters: Teaching Disability Studies Through History and the Humanities’ in Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Ed. Nilika Mehrotra. Springer. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) ‘Translating Rhetoricity and Everyday Experiences of Disablement: The Case of Rashid Jahan’s ‘Woh’’ in Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience, Eds. Someshwar Sati and G.J.V.Prasad. Routledge.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019). Entry on Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir by Madan Vasishta. Couser, G. Thomas, and Susannah B. Mintz, editors. Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) 'Corporeality and Cultural Difference' in Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience, Ed. Anita Ghai. Sage: New Delhi. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2018) ‘From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally’, Review of film Margarita with a Straw in Beginning with Disability:A Primer, Ed. Lennard Davis. Routledge: New York. (Reprint)
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2017) ‘Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula’s Chuhas’ in Bioarcheology of Impairment and Disability, Eds. Jennifer Byrnes and Jennifer Muller. Springer: New York.
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) 'The Models Approach in Disability Scholarship: An assessment of its failings' in Interrogating Disability in India, Ed. Nandini Ghosh. Springer, New Delhi. 
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2015) ‘Disability and Modernity: Bringing disability studies to literary research in India’ in South Asia and Disability Studies: Redefining boundaries and extending horizons, Ed. Shridevi Rao and Maya Kalyanpur. Peter Lang: New York.
  • Anand, Shilpaa. (2015) ‘Corporeality and Culture: Theorizing Difference in the South Asian Context’ in South Asia and Disability Studies: Redefining boundaries and extending horizons, Ed. Shridevi Rao and Maya Kalyanpur. Peter Lang: New York.
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2013) ‘Historicizing Disability in India: Questions of Subject and Method’ in Disability Studies in India: Global Discourse, Local Realities, Ed. Renu Addlakha. Routledge: London.
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2012) ‘Leprosy: Disabling Disease or Disabling Discourse’ in Dalits and Marginalization, Ed. J. Bheemaiah.

Articles

  • Anand, Shilpaa (2023) Review of Thinking Women edited by Navaneetha Mokkil and Shefali JhaIndian Journal of Gender Studies 30:2 (pp. 236-239).
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2022) 'Advertising as Activism: Exploring an Aesthetics of Debility in Kashmiri Human Rights CampaignsJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies Vol. 16: 4. 
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2019) Review of Notes on the Flesh by Shahd Alshammari. Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 5:1 (online)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2018) ‘Between Being Sighted and Being Sightly: Tracing the Proverbial ‘One-Eyed King’, Diotima’s: A Journal of New Readings Vol.8 (pp.27-38)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) 'From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally' Review of Margarita with a StrawGirlhood Studies 9:1 (pp.142-146)
  • Anand, Shilpaa (2016) Review of Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power by Asha Hans, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 23:3 (pp. 485-488).
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2016) ‘Narrating ‘Normal’: Jerry Pinto and the “Identical Paper Dolls”’, Impressions of Eternity:Journal of Language and Literature Studies Vol.16 (pp. 148-154).
  •  Anand, Shilpaa (2015) ‘Worth an Arm and a Leg: Disability and Intimacy in the Making of Madurai Veeran’. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 20:1 (pp.55-73)
  • Anand, Shilpaa. (2014) ‘Of Pity, Fear and Other Tragic Prosthetics’.  MAJELL (Maulana Azad Journal of English Language and Literature) 6:1(pp.38-50)
  •  Anand, Shilpaa. (2009) Review of Disability and Impairment: Working with Children and Families by Peter Burke, Journal of Family Communication 9:2 (pp.129-130)
 
Other Publications
 
'Ableism and the Trouble with Merit' in Third Eye. March 2023. 
 
 

Co-editor of the web magazine, Café Dissensus annual issue on disability:

2016 Disability and the Other Margins

2015 Disability: Art and Culture

2014 Debating the Disability Law in India 

 
Entry in Medico Friend Circle Bulletin'Disability Legislation and Mental Illness: What the stakes are', (March-October, 2015) 
 
Contribution to Teacher Plus magazine: