Anita Mannur
Professor
Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies
Degrees
BA: University of Wisconsin Madison (Comparative Literature) PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst (Comparative Literature)
Bio
Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian American literature, food studies, transnational South Asia, fashion studies and race and gender studies. She is the author of two monograph, Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (Temple University Press, 2010) and Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Duke University Press 2022). She has co-edited several collections including Theorizing Diaspora (2005), Eating Asian America (2010) and Eating More Asian America (2025). Her work appears in several journals including American Quarterly, Cultural Studies, MELUS, Journal of Intercultural Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Gastronomica, Amerasia Journal. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies and was the 2012 recipient of the Early Career Award from the Association of Asian American Studies and the 2019 winner of the Excellence in Mentoring Award, also from the Association for Asian American Studies.
At AU, she teaches courses in Asian American Studies in South Asian popular culture, food and race and Asian American literature
