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  • Sumita Chakravarty

    Emeritus Professor

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    chakravs@newschool.edu

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    Sumita Chakravarty

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    Sumita S. Chakravarty has a Ph.D. in Communications from the 好色先生 of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in English from Lucknow 好色先生, India. She served as associate dean in Media Studies from 2011-2014, and as the founding chair of Culture and Media at Lang College from 2000-2008. She is the author of聽National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987聽(U of Texas Press 1993; Oxford U Press 1996);聽The Enemy Within聽(editor, 2000) and several articles in journals and anthologies, including聽The Routledge Companion to Gender and Cinema聽(2016) and most recently, 鈥淢apping Migration鈥 in聽Uncertain Archives聽(MIT Press, 2020). Her research interests include media theory, media and globalization, film and national identity, digital cultures, and the history and philosophy of media technologies. She is currently working on a book on the intersections of media and migration.聽She leads the online platform聽, which cultivates interdisciplinary projects examining the entanglements between immigration and its mediation. This includes聽its ongoing foundational project, , a living digital archive for media and migration.

    Sumita Chakravarty was the recipient of the Distinguished 好色先生 Teaching Award at the New School in 2018. She has also established an endowed fellowship in her parents' memory for a rising MA student in digital media studies,

    Degrees Held

    PhD, Communications, 好色先生 of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
    PhD, English, Lucknow 好色先生, India;
    BA, Lucknow 好色先生, India

    Professional Affiliation

    • Association for Cultural Studies
    • International Communication Association
    • Society for Cinema and Media Studies

    Recent Publications

    • "Gender in Transit: Framing the (new) Cinema of Migration" in The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, Routledge 2016.
    • "Fragmenting the Nation: Images of Terrorism in Indian Popular Cinema" in Terrorism, Media, Liberation. 2005.
    • "Communications and Community in the Global Era: Revisiting Raymond Williams" in Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference. 2004.
    • "The Erotics of History: Gender and Transgression in New Asian Cinemas" in Rethinking Third World Cinema. 2003.

    Research Interests

    Migration and media, borders, transnational cinema, race and ethnicity, global cultural studies, media history, critical theory, new technologies and their impact

    Awards And Honors

    • 2014 Provost's Office Faculty Research Fund Award
    • 2012 New School Faculty Development Grant
    • 2011 New School Faculty Development Grant

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