Bio

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Lakshmi Padmanabhan is a writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. Her research interests include experimental cinema and visual art, postcolonial theory, and queer feminisms. She has written for venues including Art History, Public Books, Post45, Camera Obscura, New Review of Film & Television Studies, and Women & Performance. She has programmed experimental film and video at BRIC, AS220, and Magic Lantern Cinema. She teaches film and media studies at Northwestern University.