andita Biswas Mellamphy (BA Manitoba, MA Western, PhD Toronto) is Associate Professor and former Undergraduate Chair (2021-4) of Political Science in the faculty of Social Sciences at Western University. She is also an affiliate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, core faculty in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, and founding Director of The Electro-Governance research group (EGG).

Nationally, she has served as Assistant Editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2020-23) and is currently an Associate Editor at Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism.

Her research/teaching expertise are situated at the intersection of Political Theory of Technology, Critical- and Feminist Political Theories, Critical Security Studies, Continental Philosophy, and Media Studies.

Internationally, her research has been showcased at the Center for Contemporary Creations (Spain), the Venice Biennale (Italy), The University of Newcastle (UK), Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany), Leiden University, Cardiff University (UK), Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile), Center for Transformative Media (USA), CalArts (USA) and the University of Wisconsin (USA). Her research has been published in international peer reviewed presses such as MIT Press, Bloomsbury, Brill, DeGruyter, and Springer, as well as in journals such as Philosophy and Technology, Critical Policy Studies, Nature and Culture, Digital War, Anthropocene Review, and American Review of Canadian Studies. She has reviewed for publications such as AI & Society, and Territory, Politics, Governance.