Dr. Abhija Ghosh

Abhija Ghosh has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral research focussed on how the rise of the audio cassette industry shaped the imagination and production of 1990s romances in Bombay cinema, courting debates on modernity, censorship, sexuality and nation-making in the public sphere, while also attaining global popularity as Bollywood. Her areas of interest include film history, media industries, sound and music technologies, early cinema and Indian popular cinema. Her essays are published in ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (2020) and Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (2020), Worldview Film Studies: An Introduction (2022), and Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow (2017-2018) at the Center for Media, Culture and History, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York. She was also the recipient of the Sarai Digital and Social Media Short-Term Fellowship (2015) and the Charles Wallace Short Research Grant (2012). She has previously taught film courses at Ambedkar University, Delhi and English literature at Miranda House and Gargi College, University of Delhi.