• A senior academic with a focus on cross-disciplinary research that uses innovative frameworks, which enable a calibrated understanding of social phenomena.
• Embedded in several national and international networks

Educational Qualifications

Doctorate (PhD) in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 2005, The Hague, Netherlands.

Master in Philosophy (MPhil) in Literature from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Master of Arts (MA) in Literature from the Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Recent research (2012 – 2023)

–     Translating Sexualities, Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Society, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

–     Intersections of Gender and Sexuality with Race and Caste: Analyzing the works of Toni Morrison and Mahasweta Devi, Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Society, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

–     Technologies of Mediation and the Realities of Representation, Centre for the Study of Gender, Culture and Society, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

–     Images of Organized Sex: The Industrial Commercial Basis of Pornography, International Incoming European Union Marie Curie Fellow, Linkoping University (Sweden) and Erasmus University (The Netherlands)

–     Resisting Men: Gandhi, Gender and Anti-colonialism: research theme: Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities.(Undertaken as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Gender Excellence (GEXcel), Tema Genus, Linköping University, Sweden)

–     ‘Media Censorship and the Postcolonial Regulation of Sexuality and Culture’

–     Indian Perspectives: Feminist Theory and Practice. (Participated as a team member in this project, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India & Women’s Studies Development Centre, Delhi University.)

–     UNIFEM’s Exploring Masculinities National Travelling Seminar Initiative for two years. Resource Person.

Teaching and Professional Experience

1991 – Present: Continuous teaching experience, administrative work and research at Delhi University

1993 – Present: Associate Professor at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

2015 – 2016: Appointed as Senior Research Fellow in the Civic Innovation Research Initiative (CIRI) of The International Institute for Social Studies (ISS) Erasmus University, The Netherlands.

2016:          Selected by The International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague to teach for the Erasmus+ Gender and Sexuality Summer School, to be held from 13 – 19 September 2016 in University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, and organized by the University Program for Gender Studies and Research, in cooperation and support with the Center for Equality and Liberty, Civil Rights Defenders, Embassy of Sweden and Astrea.

2011:          Founded and appointed as Director, Centre for Gender, Culture and Social Processes (CGCSP), St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

2011:          Designed and taught the course “Gender, Sexuality and Nation in Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema” at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States of America.

2007 – 2009: Deputed as Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi.

Key Administrative Responsibilities

2023 – Appointed Vice Principal, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

2011 – Present: Founded and appointed as Founder-Director of the CGCSP, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

2012 – Present: Appointed Head of English Department, St Stephen’s College.

2018 – 2023: Chairperson, Internal Complaints Committee Against Sexual Harassment, St Stephen’s College

2018 – Present: Senior Tutor of the College

2014 – 2015: Appointed Presiding Officer, Internal Complaints Committee Against Sexual Harassment, St Stephen’s College

2010 – 2019: Staff Advisor to the Women’s and Gender Studies Cell, St Stephen’s College.

2013 – 2015, 2018-present: Appointed to the College IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell) under the NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council). The IQAC was tasked with developing systems for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institutions.

2012 – 2013: Appointed Dean of Residence, St Stephen’s College.

Consultancy and Professional Work

2012 – Present: Member, International Advisory Board of the peer reviewed International Journal, Gender, Sexuality & Feminism, brought out by the Women’s Studies Centre of the University College, Dublin, Ireland.

2012 – 2015: Appointed Content Editor of the Gendered Nation Course of the School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

2011 – 2014: Member, Expert Committee and commissioned to produce the course material module “Gender and Nation” for the Gendered Nation Course by the School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi.

2010 – 2015: Honorary Member, National Committee on Girls Education, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI), Government of India.

2010 – 2011: Member, Expert Committee, IGNOU Women’s Studies Programme.

2009:          Commissioned to produce the course material module “Gender, Sexuality and Cinema” for the Film Studies Course of the Institute of Lifelong Learning (ILLL) Delhi University.

2007 – 2009: Member, Expert Committee, CWDS-IGNOU Women’s Studies Programme. 2006 – 2007: Member, PhD Committee, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), Delhi.

2005, 2006, 2008: Resource Person for the Women’s Studies Development Centre, Delhi University.

Academic and Professional Distinctions

From 2022: Appointed Executive Committee Member of RINGS (The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies (International))

2021:          Awarded the National Educational Excellence Award by the International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation.

2020-21:     Awarded the one-year WSF-CES Digital Fellowship, University of Columbia and the WSF-CES Global South Travel Grant.

2017:          Invited as a speaker by the Government of Karnataka and Bengaluru Central University for the international conference Reclaiming Social Justice: Revisiting Ambedkar, 21-23 July 2017, at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

2017:          Invited by The Association for English Studies of India (AESI) to deliver the Keynote address at the 61st All India English Teachers Conference, on Emerging Trends in English Language and Literature, on 20 January 2017, at Nagpur, India.

2016:          Selected by The International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague to teach in the Erasmus+ Gender and Sexuality Summer School, 13 – 19 September 2016 in University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, and organized by the University Program for Gender Studies and Research, in cooperation and support with the Center for Equality and Liberty, Civil Rights Defenders, Embassy of Sweden and Astrea.

2016:          Invited by SASNET (Swedish South Asian Network) and the University of Lund, Sweden, for the Project Workshop, Online Harassment in India and Sweden, 9-10 February 2017, at Malmo, Sweden.

2011:          Awarded the European Union Commission’s Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (IIF).

2011:          Awarded the GEXcel Post-doctoral Fellowship for Gender Excellence, at the Centre for Gender Excellence, Linköping University, Sweden.

2010:          Appointed Honorary Member, National Committee on Girls Education, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI), Government of India.

2010:          Scholar-in-Residence, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States of America, March 18th – April 2nd 2010.

2007:          Deputed as Senior Research Fellow to the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research).

2008:          Convener of the Kartini Asia Network for the ‘Fundamentalisms’ theme.

2009:          Awarded the GEXcel Post-doctoral Fellowship for Gender Excellence, at the Centre for Gender Excellence, Linköping University, Sweden.

Publications:

Books

1) Imaging a Nation: The Sexual Economies of the Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), Shaker, Publishing BV, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2005

2) Melodrama and the Nation, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, India, 2010 3) Gendered Nation (Co-edited), IGNOU, New Delhi, India, 2014

4) Dystopia, Delhi: Orient Black Swan (forthcoming) 2024.

Chapters in Books

1) “Draupadi’s Moment in Sita’s Syntax: Violations of the Past and the Construction of Community in Kamal Haasan’s Hey! Ram” pp. 76-124 Women and the Politics of Violence, Taisha Abraham (ed.) Shakti Books, New Delhi, India, 2002.

2) “Designing Desire and Gender in Mainstream Bombay Cinema” pp. 48-80, Translating Desire, Brinda Bose (ed.) Katha, New Delhi, India, 2002

3) “The Importance of being Gandhi: Gendering the National Subject in Bombay Cinema” pp. 264-304, South Asian Masculinities: Context of Change, Sites of Continuity. Radhika Chopra & Caroline & Filippo Osella (eds.) Kali for Women, New Delhi, India, 2003.

4) “Seeing the Sexual: Mainstream Bombay Cinema and the Organization of Sexuality”, Developing Indian Perspectives on Feminist Theory And Methodology, Malashri Lal (ed.) Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, Delhi, India, 2005

5) “Issues in the Analysis of Bombay Cinema” pp. 455-471, English Studies, Indian Perspectives, Makarand Paranjape et al. (eds.) Mantra Books, New Delhi, India, 2005.

6) “Adrienne Rich: Sexual Politics and Poetics” pp. 55-70, Lesbian Voices: Canada & the World: Theory, Literature, Cinema, Subhash Chandra (ed.), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2006

7) “Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Excess and Narrative Containment” pp. 144-166, Narratives of Indian Cinema, Manju Jain (ed.), Primus, New Delhi, India, 2006

8) “Draupadi’s moment in Sita’s Syntax” pp. 76-80, In search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale (eds.) Penguin, New Delhi, India, 2009

9) “Changing Frames: Globalisation and Convergence in Bombay Cinema” pp. 197-214, Mass Media and Society in Post-Globalization Period: Issues & Approaches, P K Bandhopadhaya & Rajesh Das (eds.) Union Bridge Press, Kolkata, India, 2013

10) “Femininity” pp. 212-230, Gendered Nation, Gabriel, K. and P K Vijayan (eds.) IGNOU, New Delhi, India, 2014

11)“Sexualities” pp. 231-249, Gendered Nation, Gabriel, K. and P K Vijayan (eds.), IGNOU, New Delhi, India, 2014

12)“The Female Body, National Body” pp. 250-268, Gendered Nation, Gabriel, K. and P K Vijayan (eds.), IGNOU, New Delhi, India, 2014

13)“Sexuality, Mediation, Commodification: The Business of Representation” pp. 207-223, The State of Hurt: Sentiment, Politics, Censorship, Rina Ramdev et al (eds.), Sage Publications, New Delhi, India, 2015

14)“Fighting for Our Soul: Education Under the Modi Regime”, 365 Days: Democracy & Secularism Under the Modi Regime, A Report, John Dayal and Shabnam Hashmi (eds.), ANHAD, New Delhi, 2015

15)”The Subject of Porn Research: Inquiring Bodies and Lines of Resistance” Bodies in Resistance: Gender Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism, Wendy Harcourt (ed.) London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

16)“Power of Porn Cultures”, The State of Power Report, Nick Buxton and Deborah Eade (eds.) Amsterdam, The Transnational Institute (TNI), 2017

17)“Electronic Porn and the Assemblage of Sexuality”, The Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Interrogating Transnational Centres, Institutions and Power, Hearn Jeff, Marina Blagojevic, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (eds.) Routledge 2019

18)‘Turning Right, Losing Rights: ‘Educational Reforms’ in the Modi Regime’, Dismantling India: A Four-Year Report (eds.) John Dayal, Leena Dabiru, Shabnam Hashmi, New Delhi: Media House, 2018.

19)“Melodrama and the Mediations of the National Subject”, Women’s & Gender Studies in India, Anu Aneja (ed.) Routledge 2019

20)“Sex, Rape, Representation: Cultures of sexual violence in contemporary India”, Violence in South Asia, Pavan K Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha (eds). Routledge, 2019.

21)‘Right of Way: Understanding ‘Educational Reforms’ in the Time of Modi’, Indian Campuses Under Siege: A Report Amit Sengupta (ed.), People’s Commission on Shrinking Democratic Spaces, 2019.

22) “The Algorithms of desire: The field of the pornographic”. SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities, Chiara Bertone, Zowie Davy, Saskia Wieringa (eds). London: Sage, 2020.

23)“Whose State is it Anyway: Reservation, Representation, Caste and Power”, (with P K Vijayan) in B R Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice. Vol II: Social Justice. Aakash Singh Rathore (ed.). New Delhi: OUP, 2020.

24)“Close Encounters of an Imperial Kind: Gandhi, Gender and Anti-Colonialism”, in Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: Global Perspectives, (eds.) Terry Beitzel and Chandrakant Langare, Delhi: Rawat 2021.

25)“Unpacking Patriarchies: Feminism and the Humanities in India”, The World Humanities Report, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), 2022 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 2022.

26)“Towards Alternative Histories: Gandhi and the Interconstitutive Impact of the Colonial Encounter”, Inheriting Gandhi: Influences, Activisms, (eds.) Satishchandra Kumar, Kanchana Mahadevan, Meher Bhoot and Rajesh Kharat. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2022.

27)‘Exacerbating Precarity: Gender and the COVID-19 Pandemic in India’, Feminism, Activism, Politics: Production of Knowledge in the Semiperiphery, London, New York: Routledge, 2022.

28)“The Precarious Worlds of Pornography”, Handbook of Global Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities, London, New York: Routledge 2024.

Journal Articles

1) “En-gendering Myths: Sexuality and Violence in the Contemporary Commercial Hindi Cinema” Third Concept, Delhi, India, Vol. 15, no. 3, 1991

2) “Manning the Border: Gender and War in Border” Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, India, vol. XXXIII No. 15, April 11-17, 1998

3) “A Nation at War: The Production of the Martial Man in Border and Prahaar” Deep Focus, Bangalore, India, May 2005

4) “Dethroning the Queen: Gender, Sex, Caste and the Bandit Queen”, Communicator, Journal of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication New Delhi, India, January-June 2005

5) “The Country in the City: The Bye-lanes of Identity” pp 53-64, South Asian Journal: Special Issue, Cinema in South Asia, Lahore, Pakistan, July – September 2010. Anthologised in Gender and Popular Culture: Identity Constructions and Representations, Kusha Tiwari (ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2019

6) “Orientalism, Terrorism and Bombay Cinema”, pp 299-310, Journal of Postcolonial Writing: Special Issue on Orientalism and Terrorism, London, UK, volume 48, number 3, July 2012

7) “Close Encounters of an Imperial Kind: Gandhi, Gender, and Anti-colonialism”, pp 53-65, Gender, Sexuality & Feminism, Univ. of Michigan, USA, Volume 1, Number 1, May 2013

8) “Formulating Patriarchal Homosociality: Notes from India”, pp 45-59        ISSN 1890-2138, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, London, UK, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2014

9) “Hindutva’s Psychological Warfare: The Insidious Agendas of Ghar Wapsi”, pp. 22-24, Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, India, March 14, 2015, vol. L, no 11

10)“Made in India to Make in India: The Meanings of Moditva”, pp. 33-42, Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, Online, Vol. 2, no 3, Spring 2015

11)“The Politics of the Woman’s Body”, The Equator Line 22, Jan-March 2018, Vol 6, No.1 12)“Porn and Liberation: Understanding Cultures of Violence”, Kairos: The Journal of Critical Symposium, Vol 3, no. 1, 2018)

13)“The End of Humanities, Or, the Critique of Utility and the Utility of Critique”, The JMC Review: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and Theory Volume II, 2018

14)“From ‘Me Too’ to #MeToo”, The Equator Line 26 January-March 2019, Vol 7, No. 1 15)Indigenous Peoples, Cosmopolitics and the Politics of Development (with P K Vijayan), The JMC Review: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and Theory Volume III, 2019.

16)“Gender, Text and Pedagogical Practice”, Pedagogy (forthcoming 2024)

Conference Proceedings

1) “Resisting Men: Gandhi, Gender and Anti-colonialism” pp. 161-170, Proceedings from GEXcel Theme 2: Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities Conference, Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 27– 29 April 2009

2) “Notes on the Sexual Economy, Homosocial Patriarchy and the Porn Industry” pp. 141-152, Proceedings from GEXcel Theme 9: Gendered, Sexualed Transnationalisations: Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming men, “centres” and knowledge/ policy/ practice, Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Spring 2011

3) Plenary Lecture at “Representation of Women in Literature and Media Studies” National Conference on Gender Perspectives and Women’s Empowerment; Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India, March 5 & 6, 2015

Mainstream media – Popular Articles

12. “What’s in The Stars?”, Hardnews, Delhi, India, February2010
13. “Bollywood realism”, Hardnews, Delhi, India, September 2010
14. “Carnivorous Flowers of a Cruel Society”, Hardnews, Delhi, India, June 2012
15. “Ground Zero and Troublesome Tribals”, Hardnews, Delhi, India, August 2012
16. “Her LoC: Rape and the State of the Nation”,Hardnews, Delhi, India, February 2013
17. “Why We Protested Against Narendra Modi”, Countercurrents.org, 9 June 2013, Co-Author
18. “There Can Also be an Alternative Universe”, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, India, 12 June 2013, Co-Author
19. “Market and the Medium”, Frontline: Special Issue 100 years of Indian Cinema, Chennai, India, October 18, 2013
20. “The Hunger of G N Saibaba”, Sanhati, May 22, 2015, Co-Author
21. “The Discontents of a Seditious Nation”, Countercurrents.org, 6 March 2016, Co-Author
22. “The Black Bharat Mata and the Nationalism of Sedition” The Wire, 8 March 2016, Co-Author
23. “The anti-national debate: It’s a crime without a law”, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, India, 24 March 2016, Co-Author
24. “With Colleges Fighting for Autonomy, Higher Education Has a Lot to Lose”, The Wire, 3 April 2017, Co-Author

Other Publications

• Whose Mother (land)?: Visualising and Theorising National Identity, Occasional Paper no. 53, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. 2009.

Creative Writing:

–     “In Memory” (a poem) http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue639/in_memory.html

–     “The Judas Kiss” (a poem) http://bewilderingstories.com/issue786/judas_kiss.html

–     “Tea for two: A short story”, April 26, 2021, https://indianculturalforum.in/2021/04/26/tea-for-two-a-short-story/

Select Public Lectures and Conference Presentations:

1. “Theorising Gender in Cinema”, Refresher Course (Teachers’ Training Course – TTC) in Gender, Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE) & Women’s Studies Development Centre, Delhi University, November 2005

2. Keynote Address ‘The Big Cinema of Little Europe’, The Annual Little Europe Film Festival, Academic Conference Centre, Delhi University, Delhi, 12 February 2008.

3. ‘Film and the Aesthetic Interruptions of Culture and Gender’, Film and Women, University Grants Commission Refresher Course (TTC) for University Teachers titled Gender Studies: Contemporary Challenges. Organized by Women’s Studies Development Centre in collaboration with Academic Staff College, University of Delhi, 7th March 2008.

4. ‘Science Fiction, Gender and Monstrous Humanity’, University Grants Commission Refresher Course (TTC) for University Teachers titled Gender Studies: Contemporary Challenges. Organized by Women’s Studies Development Centre in collaboration with Academic Staff College, University of Delhi, 19th March 2008.

5. ‘Conceptualising Cinema, Gender and Sexuality’, Refresher Course (TTC) in Literature Jamia Milia Islamia University, 26 November 2008

6. ‘Gender and Media in India’, Refresher Course (TTC) in Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 12 February 2009.

7. ‘The Hegemonies of National Iconography: The Cases of Mother India and Mahatma Gandhi’, Higher Seminar presented at Centre for Gender Excellence, Tema Genus, Linköping University, Sweden, 12 May 2009.

8. “Understanding Melodrama and the Nation in Cinema”, Special Lecture Visiting Students of Women’s Studies, University of San Diego, delivered at the YMCA, New Delhi, 31 December 2009.

9. “Gender, Melodrama and the Nation-State: Thinking about the Political Economy of Cultural Production”, Teacher Training (TTC) Lecture delivered the Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8 March

10. “Historicizing Cinema, Gendering the Nation: The Case of Mainstream Bombay Cinema” Lecture delivered at the National Institute of Social Communications, Research and Training, New Delhi, 23 April 2010.

11. “Melodrama, Bombay Cinema, and the Politics of Exclusion: The Case of Mother India / Bharat Mata”, Reves Center for International Studies, College of William and Mary, USA, 25 March 2011.

12. “Towards Understanding Pornography”, Cine Seminar Series, St Stephen’s College, September 2011

13. “Cinema and Globalization”, Literary Society Seminar Series, St Stephen’s College, October 2011

14. “Nation, melodrama and popular cinema – a review”, Sociology Seminar Series, Department of Sociology Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University 17 October 2012

15. “Manufacturing Consent, Dissent and the Idea of the University”, Seminar on Freeing Thought: Reflections on a Democratic University, Delhi School of Economics, 25 March 2013.

16. “Media and Sexuality”, Refresher Course (TTC) Lecture at the Institute for Lifelong Learning, Delhi University, 24 December 2013.

17. “Deconstructing Gender and Sexuality”, Special Lecture at Hindu College, Delhi University, 4 September 2014.

18. “Sexualities as a Key Concept”, Key Concepts and Critical Thought Special Lecture Series, St Stephen’s College Delhi. October 31 2014.

19. Plenary Lecture “Representation of Women in Literature and Media Studies”, National Conference Gender Perspectives and Women’s Empowerment, Women’s Christian College, Chennai, March 5 & 6, 2015

20. “How to Think About Porn”, Research in Progress seminar, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 12th November 2015.

21. “Instituting Desire: Visual Cultures and the Violence of Exclusion in Indian Cinema”, ISS-4313 Course in Violent Conflict, Media and the Politics of Representation Tuesday, 24 May 2016

22. Expert speaker at Dean’s Master Class on Sex and Sexuality, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 3 June 2016

23. Plenary Address titled “The Gendered Intersectionalities of Pornography” ICSSR and UGC sponsored National Conference on Gender and Popular Culture: Representations and Embodiment, Indian Law Institute, Delhi University, 14 December 2016.

24. Lecture: “The Sexual Economy: The Missed Materialities: Gender, Sex, sexuality, Erasmus+ Gender and Sexuality Summer School, 13 – 19 September 2016 in University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, and organized by the University Program for Gender Studies and Research, in cooperation and support with the Center for Equality and Liberty, Civil Rights Defenders, Embassy of Sweden and Astrea.

25. “Gender, Sexuality and Representational Modes: The Case of Melodrama”. Erasmus+ Gender and Sexuality Summer School, 13 – 19 September 2016 in University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, and organized by the University Program for Gender Studies and Research, in cooperation and support with the Center for Equality and Liberty, Civil Rights Defenders, Embassy of Sweden and Astrea.

26. Keynote address “The Technologies of Mediation and the Realities of Representation”, 61st All India English Teacher’s Conference on Emerging Trends in Language and Literature, The Association for English Studies of India (AESI) and the Forum for Creative Writing in English (CENACLE), Nagpur, 20th January 2017.

27. Invited as a speaker by the Government of Karnataka and Bengaluru Central University for the international conference Reclaiming Social Justice: Revisiting Ambedkar, 21-23 July 2017, at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

28. Invited to speak on “Brahmanical Patriarchy and Hindutva”, at the Public Meeting on Brahmanical Patriarchy: The Foundation of Hindutva Fascism, on 18 August 2017, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

29. Valedictory address, “The Field of the Sexual and Violence”, at the National Seminar on Problematizing Sexuality and Violence: Deconstructing Institutions, Norms and Narratives in India, Feminist Engagements with Law and the State (FELS), on 24 August 2017, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University

30. Resource Person, “Mainstream Media and Gender Stereotyping”, Jesus and Mary College, workshop on Gender, Culture and Media, 6th of November 2017.

31. Guest lecture “Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film”, English Literary Association of Lady Shri Ram College, 8th of November 2017.

32. “Women Stereotypes and Path-breakers in Hindi Cinema”, 7th Oxford Pink Tea Cup Conversations held on December 1, 2017, at Oxford Cha Bar, OUP Bookstore, New Delhi.

33. “Digital Divides, Digital Dividends”, International Symposium, The Indian Media Economy: Social Transactions in Digital India, to be held on 6-8 December 2017, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

34. ‘Joseph Conrad’, In Conversation with Maya Jassanoff, LOGOS, St Stephen’s College 13thFebruary 2018.

35. Resource Person, “Cinematic Ways of Seeing”, Kalindi College Faculty Development Programme, 16thFebruary 2018

36. “Gender, Sexuality, Nation”, Annual Lecture Series, Maitreyi College, 24thFebruary 2018

37. “Changing Faces of Masculinity” bilingual National Seminar, Technologies of the Self: Representations in Cinema & New Media, held at Maitreyi College, Delhi University, on 16 March 2018.

38. ‘Two steps forward, one step back? Equality and women in the last hundred years’, ICPR funded National Conference, Department of Philosophy, Delhi University, on 16th March 2018.

39. ‘Images of Organized Sex: An Overview’, lecture at the ‘Academic Conclave’ held at St Stephen’s College, Delhi University, 22-24 March 2018.

40. “Future Tense: Prospects for the Humanities” Resource Person for the Seminar-cum-Workshop titled The Future of Humanities in the 21st Century, 24-25 March 2018, organised by and at The School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Auro University, Surat, Gujarat. 2018

41. Resource Person ‘The Educator’s Panel’, on the topic “Conceptualising Research and Education for Undergraduates” at the ‘2nd Undergraduate National Conference’ organized by and at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana, 6-7 April, 2018

42. Presentation, titled ‘Right of Way: Understanding ‘Educational Reforms’ in the Time of Modi’, as a Resource Person on higher education, at the People’s Tribunal on Attack on Educational Institutions in India, organized by the People’s Commission on Shrinking Democratic Space at the Constitution Club, New Delhi, 11-13 April 2018.

43. Lecture, ‘Turning Right, Losing Rights: An Overview of Educational Reforms in the Modi Regime’, Modi-fied India: A Review of 4 Years, Deputy Chairman’s Hall, Constitution Club Delhi, 14 July 2018.

44. ‘Images of Organised Sex: An Overview’, for the Public Lecture Series Engaging with Unequal India, St Stephen’s College, 10thAugust 2018

45. “Visuality, Mediation, technology and the Text”, Globalization, Culture and Identity: New Directions, IIC 20thAugust 2018

46. Keynote Address ‘Creating the Self: Inside and Out-side of Language’, International Conference, The Politics of Women’s Writing, Bharati College, Delhi University, 26 May 2020

47. Audio Series on Feminism in India, The Quint, 2020.

48. “Rendering Realities: Notes on the Languages of Representation”, Resource Person for the Faculty Development Programme Language and Literature, organized by Bharatiyar University 11thDecember 2020

49. Keynote address: “Mediating Representation and Regulating Desire on Screen”, Women in Films, Media and Beyond jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and the University of Guelph, Canada, 11-12 March 2021.

50. Keynote address: “Love and Desire in Literature”, Exploring Love and Desire in Literature, Hansraj College, 9 April 2021.

51. “Desire and Autonomy in Charlotte Bronte’s Novels”, Expert Lecture Series, Deshbandhu College 21st of April, 2021.

52. “The Iconography of Bharat Mata and the Politics of Exclusion”, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, 7 April 2022.

53. “Gender and Nation: The Case of Indian commercial fiction in English”, Modernisms and Sexualities, Symposium on Indian Writing in English Online [IWE Online], the Institute of Eminence project, University of Hyderabad, 8 April 2022.

54. Panel on “Sexual Dissidence”, Modernisms and Sexualities, Symposium on Indian Writing in English Online [IWE Online], the Institute of Eminence project, University of Hyderabad, 8 April 2022.

55. Plenary address, “Talking Texts: Notes on Literature and Film” ‘International Conference on Humanities through Literature, Film and Media’, Vellore Institute of Technology, August 18 2022

56. The State of the Media: Disinformation and Dissent in Electronic News Coverage in India in the panel Mapping India’s Transformation into ‘The Disinformation Capital of the World’. the 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference “Generation Asia”, held at University of Iceland 22-24 August 2022.

57. ‘Towards Alternative Histories: The Interconstitutive Impact of the Colonial Encounter’, Decolonising Feminisms, 26th & 27th October, 2022, Hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

58. ‘History and Cinema’, Keynote Inaugural Address at the annual festival, Chronicle 2023: Indian Cinema through a Historical Gaze, Jesus and Mary College, 2 Feb 2023

59. “Translating Sexuality”, Translating Sexuality: An International Panel, St Stephen’s College 5thApril 2023

60. ‘Guiding Light: The Journey of Guidance – Nurturing the inner compass of life’s path’. International Webinar under the aegis of the World Methodist Council co-hosted by the Diocese of Delhi CNI. Sept 16 2023

61. ‘Cinema, Apparatus, Ideology’, Inaugural address for the Film Society 35mm, Deshbandhu College, Delhi University, 27 October 2023.

62. “Understanding Occupation and Gender: the Context of Palestine”, Jesus and Mary College, 6thDecember 2023.

63. ‘On the Gaze’, Address as Chief Guest at the Two-day International Seminar on GAZE, organised by the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, in collaboration with Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), 28 Feb 2024

64. Some Principles of Representation, Pleasure and Containment in Mainstream Bombay Cinema, Plenary Address, Lady Shri Ram Annual History Academic Festival, ‘Maazi-o-Mustaqbil’ 2024, 26thApril 2024.

Membership in Professional Bodies

• RINGS – The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies (International)
• The Transnational Institute (TNI) (The Netherlands)
• ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research – a World Association of Academics and Researchers, based in Athens) (Greece)
• Life Member, Indian Association of Women’s Studies (India)