Ankita Rathour

Dr. Ankita Rathour is a third year Brittain fellow and one of the incoming Assistant Directors of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech for the academic year 2025–2026. 

Rathour's research fields include Hindi film, Indian Anglophone Fiction, and Gender Violence in postcolonial India. Her dissertation studied the representation of dead women in Hindi crime films and Indian crime fiction to a) theorize a postcolonial dead girl trope and b) trace the production and marketing overlaps between Bollywood and Indian crime fiction. Her work has been published widely on academic and popular platforms. She is also the producer and co-host of an Indian film podcast The Desi Gaze.

At Georgia Tech, Rathour has taught first year English classes that have approached multimodal composition with a focus on topics such as 1) Postcolonial Literature and Film, 2) Global Masculinities, 3) Non-European Film and 4) Rhetoric of Anticolonial Resistance. Beyond WCP, she frequently collaborates with the School of Modern Languages. In Spring, 2025, she designed and taught an ML-2500 course called Global Bollywood. Rathour also organized the first Indian film screening at the annual Global Media Festival at GT along with her colleagues Dr. Ida Yoshinaga and Dr. Amit Prasad. In collaboration with Atlanta Global Studies, she has brought numerous events that speak to the South Asian student population of GT and beyond.