Ira Bhaskar

Biography

Currently a Professor, Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU. Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Gargi College, Delhi University, Jan 1996- Jan 2006 Lecturer, Department of English, Gargi College, Delhi University, Sept 1980 - Jan 1996 Scholar in Residence, York University, Canada, June 2013 Visiting Faculty, The Film Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, April 2011 Visiting Faculty, at the Dip. Studi Politici e Sociali, University of Pavia, Italy, November 2003 Visiting Faculty at Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University, 2007-2009 Adjunct Faculty, School of Continuing Education, New York University, the HEOP Program, New York University, 1994, 1995, 1997 and La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, 1994 - 1995. Teaching Assistant, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, 1994-1995 and 1997 Visiting Faculty, English Department at South Delhi Campus of Delhi University. July 1987-May 1993 (Graduate courses) Guest Faculty at Various Film Appreciation Courses and Film Courses at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune; The Whistling Woods International Film School, Mumbai; at the School of Convergence, IMI, Delhi; at the India Habitat Centre; at Jamia Milia Islamia; and at different colleges of Delhi University.  Education: Ph.D., Cinema Studies. Ph.D., Cinema Studies. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 2005 M. Phil., English. Department of English, Delhi University, 1987 M.A., English.Department of English, Delhi University, 1980 B.A. English Hons . Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, 1978

Research Interest

Film and Historical Trauma; Theories of Trauma, Memory, Violence and Representation; Partition and Contemporary Communalism; "Historical Poetics" ; Cinema and Modern Subjectivities; Cinema and Islamicate Cultures, Histories, Forms and Idioms; Melodrama and Cinematic Forms; Literature and Film