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Screening of Saim Sadiq’s Joyland- May 14, 2024

Rita Banerjee will introduce and lead the discussion for Saim Sadiq’s 2022 film, Joyland, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 from 6-8:30 pm for the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The screening will take place in Seminar Room 427 (Ludwigstr. 31, Munich), and anyone interested in South Asian aesthetics, literary theory, or art-house film is welcome to join the screening. 

“This year’s Queer Palme winner, and the first ever Pakistani film in the Cannes official selection, Saim Sadiq’s debut impresses with its sensitive storytelling and vibrant visuals… Tartly funny and plungingly sad in equal measure, this is nuanced, humane queer filmmaking, more concerned with the textures and particulars of its own intimate story than with grander social statements — even if, as a tale of transgender desire in a Muslim country, its very premise makes it a boundary-breaker.” – Guy Lodge, Variety

Rita Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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Screening of Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahānī – May 7, 2024

Rita Banerjee will introduce and lead the discussion for Sujoy Ghosh’s 2012 film, Kahānī (Story, कहानी), on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 from 6-8:30 pm for the Institute for Indology and Tibetology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The screening will take place in Seminar Room 427 (Ludwigstr. 31, Munich), and anyone interested in South Asian aesthetics, literary theory, or art-house film is welcome to join the screening. 

“The sudden disappearance of an IT contractor in Kolkata triggers a riveting, labyrinthine puzzle, replete with duplicitous spy shenanigans, in Kahaani. Versatile [thespian] powerhouse Vidya Balan follows up her daring vamp in The Dirty Picture with a dazzling portrait of a determined London-based woman traveling to the subcontinent in search of her missing husband. Buttressed by compelling [performances], this adroit thriller makes the occasional misstep but maintains momentum and credibility. Forgoing Bollywood’s standard musical numbers, the pic could potentially cross over to wider [audiences] with an appetite for thrillers.” – Russell Edwards, Variety

Rita Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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“Trochees: The Horse Beat” Lecture Narrated by Rita Banerjee

In honor of a guest lecture at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles in January 2016, poet Rita Banerjee created the presentation “Trochees: The Horse Beat,” which can be viewed on YouTube. This mini-lecture, which was presented as part of Rita Banerjee’s class “Poetry & What’s at Stake,” features a study of the trochaic form in English poetry with a close reading of William Blake’s “The Tyger.” The lecture is available to the public and for classroom use on YouTube here.