Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Office
106, Block C, Old SAC
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
I.I.T. Kanpur
Kanpur 208016
India
History of film theory, aesthetic politics, world cinema, critical theory
PhD, Screen Arts and Cultures (University of Michigan), 2017
M. Phil, English Literature (The English and Foreign Languages University), 2010
MA, English Literature (The English and Foreign Languages University), 2008
BA (Nizam College, Osmania University), 2002
“Remembering that which is yet to pass,” in Contagion Narratives: The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South, ed. R. Sreejith Varma & Ajanta Sircar (Routledge, 2023 [in press])
"Philosophy Leaves the Movie Theater: Or, Stanley Cavell at the Doors of a Discipline," Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol 44 (3), 46-65.
"Introduction: An Unfinished Business of Film Theory and Philosophy," Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 44 (3), 1-8.
“Total war, total history, total cinema: André Bazin on the political perils of cinematic realism,” Screen 58.1 (2017), 38-58
Rackham Spring/Summer Centennial Fellowship, 2013, University of Michigan