Lakshmi Padmanabhan (she/they; lakshmi@northwestern.edu) is Assistant Professor of Radio, TV, Film at Northwestern University. Her academic writing is published and forthcoming in journals including Cultural Critique, Camera Obscura, JCMS, Women & Performance, Art History, and New Review of Film and Television. Her essays, criticism and reviews have been published in Post45, Seen, Public Books, and Jewish Currents. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume, Forms of Errantry, on the experimental films of Miryam Charles and has co-edited a special issue of Women &  Performance (2019). Her current book project examines the aesthetics of counter-cinema and the failed dreams of decolonization in India from the 1970s to the present.