I am a scholar of media and cultural studies, and I specialize in ethnographic and arts-based research methods. Primarily focused on contemporary Asia, particularly in India, my research interests and expertise include

• Disability studies

• Gender and feminist theory

• Anthropology of the body

• Social media and Internet studies

• Critical media industry and labour studies

• Diaspora studies

• Production cultures

My doctoral thesis, which I am turning into a book, investigates the prejudices, preoccupations and precarity underlying the production, distribution, and reception of disability in contemporary Bollywood cinema.

Currently, I am an Alexander Von Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University zu Berlin. Here, my research foregrounds the implicit gendering of labour practices, production cultures and new media genres in classifying “editing as women’s work.”

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