Dr Rohit K Dasgupta

I am Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this I was Senior Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University where I am currently Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. I am also a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. I have also been a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Fordham University.

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As an ethnographer my work cuts across several disciplines with particular interests in communication and social change, cultural industries, protest culture, queer politics and South Asia. I have also held academic roles at the University of Southampton, University of the Arts London, University of Sussex, University of West London and University of Westminster.

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I have received external grants from the AHRC, British Academy, Carnegie Trust, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, EPSRC and the Wellcome Trust. I have published in the areas of queer cultures, Indian cinema, creative labour, South Asian visual cultures and cultural politics.

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I am currently working on several book length projects on India's cultural industries, transnational cinema, queer migration and COVID assemblages in South Asia.