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

• Disability studies

• Women and Gender Studies

• Production cultures

• Feminist media studies

• Sociology of the body

• Social media and Internet studies

• Critical media industry and labour studies

• AI for creator labour and innovation

My doctoral thesis, titled “Disability in New Bollywood: Mapping Production and Circulation of Affect”, has been awarded the “Best Thesis 2024-25” by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I am now turning it into a book, which foregrounds the prejudices, preoccupations and precarity underlying the production, distribution, and reception of disability in contemporary Bollywood cinema.

I am a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellow Award (2025). As part of this, I am pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship 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.”

Recently, I curated and organised a writing workshop, “Navigating Precarity and Archiving in South Asian Media and Cultural Studies” at the Institute for Asian and African Studies. It covered a broad range of themes, including decolonial methods in critical media industry studies, intersections of race and gender in archival erasures and absences, precarity of behind-the-scenes and below-the-line media work, among others.

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