Anjana Mudambi

Associate Professor, Communication
Undergraduate Program Director, Communication

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Mudambi is a critical qualitative intercultural communication scholar. In her research, she seeks to challenge the systems of power that position cultural communities in relation to each other, improve communication and pedagogy about race within the university, and help expand the application of critical perspectives in the field of communication. For more information about her, her teaching, and her scholarship, please visit her website. Please note that she is on sabbatical for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Selected Publications

Mudambi, A., & Radhakrishnan, H. (2026). Communicating caste-blindness through frames of post-racism: Exploring American-born Desis' reproduction of caste/ist discourses. Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. Advance online publication.

Mudambi, A. (2025). Constructing diasporic spaces of racial belonging: Negotiating boundaries of cultural identity in Indian American discourses. Western Journal of Communication, 89(5), 826-846.

Mudambi, A., & Harris, L. J. (2024). Feminist relational agency and the cultural contestation of heteronormative gender norms in the Indian American diaspora. Women's Studies in Communication, 47(3), 292-316.

Mudambi, A., & Heuman, A. N. (2024). Expanding upon critical methodologies and perspectives in Communication Studies. Communication Studies, 75(4), 377-389.

Mudambi, A. (2023). South Asian Americans and anti-Black racism: Critically reflexive racialization as anti-racist vernacular discourse. Communication, Culture & Critique, 16(1), 1-8.

Mudambi, A., Collier, M. J., Muneri, C. T., Scott, L., Watley, E., & Castro-Sotomayor, J. (2023). Toward student critical reflexivity through critical pedagogy: Assessing student discourse in an intercultural conflict course. Western Journal of Communication, 87(3), 347-369.