Framji Minwalla

Before retiring from institutional teaching, Dr Framji Minwalla taught undergraduates for thirty years across three continents. In Pakistan, he served as Program Director for Communication & Design at Habib University; as Chair of the Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, where he implemented a transdisciplinary major in Social Sciences that he helped design; and as Head of the Department of Media Sciences at SZABIST, Karachi, where he revised the undergraduate curriculum and developed graduate-level programs in Film & Television Production and Media Studies. Before returning to Pakistan, he taught at a range of colleges and universities in the United States, including Yale University, Vassar College, Dartmouth College, The George Washington University, New York University, and Fordham University. In addition, he taught as part of an intensive summer theater workshop in Northern Ireland at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and twice led Dartmouth’s Foreign Study in Theater Program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has published extensively in academic journals, and his research interests include Performance Literature and History; Visual and Cultural Studies; Theater and Politics; Television and Film; Communication and Media Studies; and all forms of theory—linguistic, political, feminist, queer, dramatic, visual, postcolonial, aesthetic, literary, and otherwise. Dr Minwalla earned a B.A. (1987) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and both a Master of Fine Arts (MFA, 1991) and a Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA, 2000) from the Yale School of Drama.