ABOUT ME
I am an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE). Prior to this, I served as a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow, where I convened the MSc programme in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy. Before my tenure at Glasgow, I was a Senior Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University, where I continue to serve as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries.
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I have held a number of prestigious Visiting Fellowships including serving as Senior Visiting Fellow in Sociology at LSE; Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Research in Global Communication in University of Pennsylvania and McGannon Fellow at Fordham University New York.
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 am currently working on several projects on queer migration, media and nation in India, film festivals as community making and cultural labour.​
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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.
EDUCATION
University of the Arts London
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Advanced Studies, University of London
PGCert in Human Rights
University of West London
PGCert in Teaching and Learning in HE
​University of Westminster
Master of Arts (MA)
Jadavpur University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Honours