Sushmita Banerji Assistant Professor Ph.D (University of Iowa, United States) Research Areas: Indian Cinema; World Cinema; Literature Flim Adaptations; World Literature; Film and Literary theory; Narrative theory and genre theory; culture studies; post-colonial theory; American Cinema and Pop culture. Email: sushmita.banerji@iiit.ac.in

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Sushmita Banerji is an Assistant Prof. of Humanities at IIIT Hyderabad. She teaches courses on Cinema, Literature, and Gender among other things. Her primary work is on the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and the cinema of the Partition of India. She is interested in critical theories of film and literature, Partition and Trauma Studies, Indian Popular Cinema, New technologies, and Visual Cultures outside of cinema.

Research Students

• Sudha Tanay Doddi
• Hariharan Kalimuthu
• Tanveer Ul Mustafa