Theme: Featured in Film

Join TEDxOhioStateUniversitySalon on 1/31 as we discuss representation in the film industry! We will have a team of panelists that will provide different perspectives on the topic as we hope to craft a conversation about various underrepresented groups not only in the film industry but also the world of media in modern-day society. We hope to see you there!

TEDxOhioStateUniversitySalon: Featured in Film
1775 College Rd S
Columbus, Ohio, 43210
United States

Ila Nagar

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Culture

Dr. Nagar joined the NELC faculty in the Autumn 2013. Her research focuses on the relationship between language, gender, and sexuality; particularly how people negotiate gender and sexual identity through language. Her publications describe the intersection of sexuality, language use, and class in the performance of gender in the lives of a community of male sex workers in Lucknow, India who self-identify as janana. She also examine the nexus of language, gender and sexuality in the portrayal of sexual violence against women in Indian media. Her discussion of sexuality in India and more broadly in South Asia is built on understanding the connections between the local context of a mid-sized Indian city and more global contexts like legal implications of sexual conduct.

Linda Mizejewski

Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Linda Mizejewski specializes in feminist media studies and film studies. She is the author of Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles (1992), Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (1999), Hardboiled and High Heeled: the Woman Detective in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2004), and It Happened One Night (2010), the latter of which is part of the Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Film and Television. Her most recent monograph, Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics, has won honorable mention for two national prizes. With Victoria Sturtevant, she is the co-editor of an anthology, Hysterical! American Women in Comedy (2017), which won the Susan Koppelman Prize from the Popular Culture Association.