Lalitha Gopalan

Lalitha Gopalan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, with affiliate appointments in the Department of Asian Studies and the South Asia Institute.

• PhD, University of Rochester

Her research spans Film Theory, Feminist Film Theory, and Experimental Film and Video, focusing on Indian and global cinematic practices. She has authored and edited landmark publications on Tamil cinema, digital India's film landscape, and genre studies.

Recent curated projects include Other Species, Other Times: New Video Art from India (2015-16) and Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Cinema (2011-12). She serves on the editorial boards of Camera Obscura and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

• Senior Fellowship, Polish Institute of Advanced Study
• Provost’s Author’s Fellowship, UT Austin
• Tagore Fellowship, Ministry of Culture (India)
• Senior Long-Term Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies
• Fulbright Hays-Nehru Fellowship

Dr. Gopalan teaches courses like Asian Horror Film and Women Behind the Camera, with Fall 2025 courses listed in the University of Texas catalog.