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PhD, Brown University, 2013; MA, Jadavpur University, 2005; BA, Jadavpur University, 2003

• Associate Professor of Global Film and Media, 51�Թ���, 2020-Present
• Assistant Professor of Global Film and Media, 51�Թ���, 2014-2020
• Visiting Assistant Professor of World Cinema, Hampshire College, 2012-2013
• Five College Pre-doctoral Fellow, Hampshire College, 2011-2012

Global film and media; queer theory and visual cultures; psychoanalysis and cultural critique; 

Gender and sexuality studies; aesthetics and politics; theories of reading and spectatorship

• Senior Seminar in Film and Media Studies
• History and Theory of Cinema
• Global Media: Flows and Counter-flows 
• LGBTQ Cinema in a Transnational Frame 
• Sexuality and Visibility 
• Global Cinema 
• The Documentary Impulse 
• Intro to Film and Media Studies
• Language, Power, and Difference: Approaches to Semiotics (Hampshire)
• Introduction to World Cinema (Hampshire)
• Real and Fictive Identities: Ethnicity in Migrant Literature and Cinema (Hampshire)
• Sexuality and Capitalism (Hampshire)

Monograph

 (Northwestern University Press, 2020)

Podcast .

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Articles/ Book Chapters

"What Does It Mean to 'Sound Gay'?: The Accented (Voice) as Surplus Jouissance" in , 266-280.

 Effects 3 (2022): 98-112. 

 

“What’s ‘in’?: Disaggregating Asia through New Media Actants,” co-authored with Rey Chow, in , 17-27.

 

“In the Shadow of the Homoglobal: Queer Cosmopolitanism in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone,”&�Բ�����;Jindal Global Law Review 4, no. 2 (2013): 239-267. 
Reprint in  317-350. 


Reprint in , 38-57.





“The Flight of the Eunuch: Mapping Homotextualities in South Asian Diaspora Literature,”&�Բ�����;Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, ed. Kaustav Bakshi and Samrat Sengupta (New Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2008), 91-113.
 

Online Articles

Other Publications 

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• Picker Research Fellowship Award, 2024-2025
• 51�Թ��� Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2019) 
• Research Council Major Grant (Summer 2017) 
• Kallgren Teaching-Related Grant (Summer 2016) 
• 51�Թ��� Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Spring 2015) 
• 51�Թ��� Research Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2014)
• 51�Թ��� Arts Council Discretionary Grant (Fall 2014)
• Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 2013-2014 (Declined)
• Five College Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Hampshire College, 2012-2013
• Dissertation Completion Award, Brown University Graduate School, 2012
• Brown-Wheaton Dissertation and Teaching Fellowship, Wheaton College and Brown University, 2012-2013 (Declined)
• Cogut Graduate Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 2011-2012
• International Conference Travel Award, Office of International Affairs, Brown University, 2011
• Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, 2010
• Pembroke Graduate Fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, 2009-2010
• Brown University Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008
• Graduate Scholarship, Paul Foundation, India, 2007
• CNN International Professional Program Fellowship, Atlanta, 2006

• Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity (2021-2024)