Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

Research Fellow

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

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Research areas

Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal is a film and media historian. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-DFG "" project, a collaboration between the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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,ÌýWatch 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (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

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 6 Apr 2026, Bombay Film Colour Website.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 20 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Film History. 36, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 10 Jun 2025, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Blog.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 11 Dec 2025, (Accepted/In press) War Faces on Screen : Photography, Film, and the Politics of Representation. Parry, K. & King Sharpe, M. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 24 Mar 2024, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Blog.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Open access
    Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 1 Jul 2024, Film atlas. Layton, J. (ed.). Brussels; Rochester: International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF); George Eastman Museum

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 1 Feb 2023, In: Early Popular Visual Culture. 21, 1, p. 179-181 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Open access
    Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 1 Apr 2022, In: Frames Cinema Journal. 19, p. 315-317 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 6 Jul 2022, In: Screen. 63, 2, p. 264-267 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  • Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, A., 4 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Early Popular Visual Culture. 19, 1, p. 98-101 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

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