Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal is a film and media historian. Since 2023 he has been working as an Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. From June 2025 he will take up the position of the Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-DFG funded ‘Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe’ project, at St Andrews. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century British educational and visual culture, non-theatrical film and media, film technologies, science and cinema, colonial cinema, media materiality.

Anushrut's current book project, Watch and Learn: Film and British Education c.1900 examines how cinema and other media technologies, such as the magic lantern and print, shaped early-twentieth-century British education. Based on extensive archival research, he explores the socio-cultural, economic, intellectual, and technological reasons that governed the media use of institutions of scientific and religious education.

Building on his research Anushrut will work on the use of filmstips as an instructional and political media technology across Europe in the twentieth century. He is currently also researching glass as a media object. Here he is examining what the material and metaphorical uses of glass in British screen media – film, television, digital media – reveal about the class hierarchies, colonial legacies, gender discriminations, and environmental degradations embedded within British visual culture.