Anjali Monteiro is a documentary filmmaker, media educator and researcher who lives in Mumbai.

[1] She is currently Professor and Dean at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology from Goa University and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, under the guidance of noted scholar Professor Ashis Nandy in 1994.

[7][8][9][10][11] Monteiro joined the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1983 and set up the Audio-Visual Unit, which is now the School of Media and Cultural Studies.

Monteiro's doctoral work, entitled State, Subject and the Text: The Construction of Meaning in Television, supervised by Prof. Ashis Nandy, involved an ethnographic study of television audience reception in a working-class neighbourhood in Goa, in the late 1980s.