![]() ![]() By night, I am working on a certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University, which has been inspiring for my ongoing curatorial and public humanities practice. I remain active in the collaborative administration of film series and festivals-most recently, as a Guest Programmer for the Virginia Film Festival and Director of Programming for the Shenandoah Film Collaborative. I currently direct the undergraduate Distinguished Majors Program in MESALC, and I am on the executive committee of the Screen Arts and Culture forum of the Modern Language Association. My interests span world film history feminist historiography informal practices of media distribution across South / West Asia and the Indian Ocean intersections of audio-visual media and literary forms and sound studies. I am additionally working-in extra slow motion!-on a more creative project that has grown out of my interests in media studies and transregional histories: I am assembling a cultural history of carrom, a popular tabletop game of South Asian origin, through a collection of oral histories, memoirs, and original short stories. A second project, tentatively titled Agents on Location, explores South-South histories of location shooting and espionage genres, as intertwined with informal and clandestine practices of film distribution. Sirens of Modernity historicizes the category of “world cinema” in the politics of the Cold War, and the manner in which popular Hindi film/songs negotiated their own worldly circuits through reflexive arguments about gender, excess, and popular cinephilia during the 1960s. Supported by a Spring 2018 residence at Yale University and a 2018-2019 Mellon Humanities Fellowship, I have completed my first book titled Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay (2022). My location in Lebanon for two years (2014 - 2016) complemented my earlier fieldwork at the National Film Archive of India, enabling me to further explore postwar circulation histories of Hindi film/songs across and beyond the Middle East. After completing my PhD at Rice University (2014), I joined the American University of Beirut as an Assistant Professor of Visual Culture.
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