Assistant Professor at Boston College
About
Anjali Vats teaches courses in the areas of race, rhetoric, law, and media studies. Her research is focused on rhetorics of race in law and popular culture. She has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech and Communication, and Culture & Critique. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Created Differences: Intellectual Property and the Formation of Race and National Identity in “Post-Racial” America, which considers how political, popular, and legal discourse about copyrights, trademark, and patents is used to create and manage racial and national identities in the United States and globally.
Current Work:
Dr. Vats' research has focused on questions of racial representation in popular culture, including high fashion and food culture, the politics of yoga, and rhetorics of race in intellectual property law.
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