Koel Banerjee

Visiting Assistant Professor

Area of Study

Film and Visual Media, Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

Dr. Banerjee works across the interdisciplinary fields of film and media studies, cultural studies, and South Asia Studies, with a focus on cinema’s role in shaping the discourse of citizenship in contemporary India. She is currently working on a scholarly monograph that examines the relationship between Bollywood cinema, consumerism, celebrity culture, and citizenship in neoliberal India. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Cultural Critique, Film Quarterly, Screen, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism, and Oxford Handbook of Children’s Films.  

Education

Ph.D., Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Moving Image Studies, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

M.Phil., English Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

M.A., English Literature, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India

B.A., English (Hons), Presidency College, Kolkata, India