Academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Padmaavat and Manikarnika: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema’ in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation, edited by Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, New York and London, 2025 (ISBN 9781003367901)

 

‘The Constitution of/and Caste: Portrayal of Caste and Legal Justice in Three Contemporary Indian Films by Savarna Filmmakers’ in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India, edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Joshil K. Abraham, Oxon and New York, 2023 (ISBN 9781032160993)

 

 ‘This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition’, co-authored with A P Payal, in Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories and Graphic Reportage, edited by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind,  Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2020 (ISBN 978-3-030-37998-8)

 

‘Casting Caste through Graphic Narratives’ in Trajectories of Popular Expression: Forms, Histories, Contexts, edited by Navneet Sethi and Ananya Saha,  Aakar Books, New Delhi, 2019 (ISBN 978-93-5002-575-8)  

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Goddess or Woman, Pativrata or Feminist?: Sita in Two Contemporary Graphic Narratives in Muse India: The Literary E-Journal, edited by Sapna Dogra, ‘Indian Graphic Novels’ special issue (110), July-August 2023