Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies
60 Motilal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700029
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2008 Manipal University M.A. 2000 Jadavpur University B.A. 1998 Jadavpur University

Name Of The Institution Position Held Period Jadavpur University Visiting Faculty January 2001 to May 2006 Jadavpur University Assistant Professor February 2007 to continuing

Film Historiography, Bengali Cinema, Indian Film and Popular Culture, Cult and Exploitation Cinema

Early Film Forms, New Waves Across the World,Understanding American Cinema,Melodrama and Popular Entertainment, Film as Popular Culture,History of Cinema: From the Early Years to the Hollywood Studio Era, General Introduction to Theory,Analysis of Film

Bengali Popular Cinema,Indian Cult and Exploitation Cinemas

More than 7 years of Postgraduate and Undergraduate teaching in Film Studies.

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name On Disreputable Genres: B Movies and Revisionary Histories of Bombay Cinema Marg 2013 Vol 64, No.4-32-41 Teaching Indian Cinema Journal of the Moving Image 2012 11-69-77 Bengali Popular Melodrama in the 50s South Asian Journal 2010 29-15-25 Remapping Transitions of Bengali Cinema into the 50s Journal of the Moving Image 2010 9-117-146 Inhabiting Passionate Spaces: Reframing of Intimacy in 50s Bengali ‘Romantic Films Silhouette 2008 11-37-49 More

Awarded By Award Name Year Jadavpur University University Gold Medal for Masters Examination in Film Studies 2000

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Asmita Das Muslim Socials in Indian Popular Cinema Ongoing 2012

Project Title Worked As Funding Agency Amount Duration Period Status Romancing the Post-Colonial City: The Problematic of the Desire to Settle Down in Urban Benga Principal Investigator Sarai and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 40000 6 months January 2003 to June 2003 Complete

Title Organised By Venue Year An Affair to Remember: Love, Narrativity and the Sign of Tagore Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay IIT, Bombay 2013 Teaching Film History Orientation Programe organized by The Media Lab in collaboration with Department of Film Studies Jadavpur University 2011 Experimental Cinemas Film Appreciation Audit Course organized by Jadavpur University Dept, of Film Studies, J.U. 2011 Realism and Melodrama in Indian Popular Cinema: Remapping Histories of Bengali Cinema Centre for Media & Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, TISS, Mumbai 2010 Reflections on the Invasion of Dirty Heroes American Film Appreciation Workshop, American Centre American Centre, Kolkata 2005

Program Name Organised By Venue Year UGC Refresher Course on Film, Media, Politics Academic Staff College and the Dept. of Films Studies, Jadavpur University Dept. of Film Studies, JU 2012 Workshop on Culture and Cinematic Representation Centre for Media & Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai TISS, Mumbai 2010` Tactical Media Workshop 2.0: Archiving the Everyday The Media Lab , Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2009 Workshop on Law and the Image The Media Lab, Jadavpur University and Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore Jadavpur University 2008 International Summer School on Understanding Culture in Contemporary India, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore and the Department of English, Bangalore University CSCS, Bangalore 2004

Program Name Organised By Venue Year Type Of Participation The Cinema Century: Film, Technology and the Contemporary The School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi, India 2013 Paper presentation CinemaSpace: Indian Cinema and the City Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston Houston, USA 2011 Paper presentation Film Cultures: Historical Perspectives Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and The London Consortium Hyderabad, India 2011 Paper presentation Alternative Cinemas in India: Forms and Institutions Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2010 Jt. Coordinator and panel speaker Writing Histories for Indian Cinema Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2009 Jt. Coordinator and paper presentation More

Program Name Session Title Organised By Venue Year The Future of Celluloid Video responses on Youtube and the condition of collaborative authorship The Media Lab and Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2008 Back To Top