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Full Time Faculty PhD granting institution: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (USA) Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 6853 Curriculum Vitae |
Dr. Soumik Pal is an Assistant Professor at the Media, Communication and Journalism programme at the Department of Political Science and Sociology. He holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (US). His work has been published injournals such as Studies in South Asian Film and Media, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and edited volumes on Bollywood cinema and language politics in India. He has worked on the phenomenon of stardom and celebrity as commodity, notions of masculinity as seen in Hindi cinema from the 1970s to the contemporary era, and how that has informed Indian politics leading up to the current Hindutva era. His research interests include neoliberal cultures concerning bureaucracy, finance, construction of gender representations, Hindutva fascism, and the rise of the global police state.
Journal Articles
“Tracing the Kafkaesque in Neoliberal India: No Smoking (2007),” Journal of Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 13:1. 2022, pp. 39-54, https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00046_1
Book Chapters
“In the Morbid Interregnum: Vishal Bharadwaj’s Realist Aesthetic and the Neoliberal Imaginary,” with Jyotsna Kapur, Contemporary Bollywood Directors, edited by Aysha Iqbal Vishwamohan, 2016, pp. 131-159. India: Sage Publications.
“Relativizing Youth and Hinglish,” with Siddharth Mishra, Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish edited by Rita Kothari and Rupert Snell, 2010, 161-175. India: Penguin Books.
“Embodying the Technocratic Gaze: Aamir Khan’s Stardom and Nationalism and Bollywood Cinema,” Mediated Cultures, Political discourses, and the Celebrity: Perspectives from India edited by Swapna Gopinath, Ramna Walia, Rutuja Deshmukh (abstract accepted, chapter due in 2023)
Review Articles
“Hearts in Other Places: Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora,” with Laura Verónica Jiménez Morales & Namrata Rele Sathe, Journal of Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 12:1, 2020, pp. 109-121, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00044_7
“Desperately seeking answers to the future of stardom in the age of neoliberalism,” Journal of Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 14.1. 2022, pp. 91-99, https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00064_4
Book Reviews
Review of Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy, by Priya Joshi, Journal of Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 8:1. 2016, pp. 69-73, DOI; 10.1386/safm.8.1.63_5
Review of Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema, by Rajinder Dudrah, Journal of Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 5:2. 2013, pp. 201-203, DOI: 10.1386/safm.5.2.195_5
Review of Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises, by Chandrima Chakraborty (ed.), NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2018.1533666
Review of Tollygunge to Tollywood: The Bengali Film Industry Reimagined by Anugyan Nag and Spandan Bhattacharya. India: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. 2021. Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol. 15, Issue 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09749276241257288
Editing
Co-edited special issue for Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media titled “Media and the Police State”, Issue 62, Winter 2023-24, https://ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html
Editorial: https://ejumpcut.org/currentissue/Sathe-Pal/index.html
2021: PhD, Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Dissertation: The Making of the Man’s Man: Stardom and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism in Hindutva India (Supervisor: Dr. Jyotsna Kapur)
2009: Post Graduate Diploma in Communications Management, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
Dissertation: Making of An Icon: A Study of Raja Ravi Varma (Supervisor: Dr. Rita Kothari)
2007: M.A. Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Dissertation: Gulzar: The Study of An Author (Supervisor: Dr. Anindya Sengupta)
2005: B.A. English (Hons.), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata
Assistant Professor, Media, Communication and Journalism, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka
Assistant Professor, Department of Filmmaking, SEAMEDU at Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune (March, 2023 – June, 2023)
Guest Faculty, Department of Film Studies, West Bengal State University, Kolkata (October, 2021 – February, 2023)
Instructor of Record, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Spring 2015, Fall 2015)
Graduate Assistant (Teaching and Research), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (2012-2021)
Sapient Nitro, Gurgaon (India): August, 2010 – May, 2012
ASSOCIATE (Marketing Strategy and Analysis)
Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad (India): April, 2009 – August, 2010
ASSISTANT MANAGER: Corporate Communications, Marketing Communications
JWT (advertising agency), Kolkata (India): April, 2008 – June, 2008
INTERN: Account Planning and Research
Television and New Media
Social Media and Contemporary Society
Sociology 101
Political Science 101
Popular culture, Hindi cinema, Bengali cinema, neoliberalism, fascism, masculinity, stardom, celebrity, feminism, bureaucracy, police state