Farrah Qidwai, a New School for General Studies alum, will travel to India this month as a Fulbright Scholar. Qidwai received both an MFA in Creative Writing (’03) and an MA in Media Studies (’07) from The New School. In her project, entitled “Unveiling the Muslim Screen Siren in 1970s Bollywood Cinema,” Qidwai will analyze the role played by Muslim actresses in articulating Indian identity in Hindi cinema. She builds on the methodological groundwork laid by the scholar Richard Dyer, whose investigations of “star texts” explored film stars as symbols of U.S. society.