Mentoring and Leading

Teaching and Supervision

Undergraduate

Film Studies: Basics
Cultural Studies: Basics

POSTgraduate

Film theories
Cultural reading of films
Communication and cultural theories
Creative Writing

Ph D Course Work

Communication Theories

Primary Dissertation Advisor

PG in Audio-Visual Studies

Research paper (monograph of 15,000 words )
Poetry Project (visual representation of select poems)

PH D Scholars

Amal Sony on social media spaces, minority communities in India and the social dynamics at play within the context of nationalism
Dhara Shah on cinema, archiving and institutions
Akshara Pathak on gender and journalistic spaces

Ph D Awarded

Julie P.S: Mapping Gulf Diasporic Spaces in Malayalam Cinema.
Shobha S Nair: Reciprocity of Memory and Identity: Constructing Sociocultural Trauma in Select Works of Hosseini and Rahimi.
Dalia D: Linguistic Competence as a Variable of Oral Communicative Ability: ESL Learning at Undergraduate Level.
Aravind S G: Imagining the Indian Man: Celluloid Masculinities in Bollywood War Movies

Thesis Evaluated

Noopur Desai: The Hybrid Space: Contemporary Art and Public Space in Mumbai. School for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

K Neethu Tilakan. Lyricism, the Real and the Nation: A reading of the Films of Abbas Kiarostami. University of Calicut, Kerala.
Rajarajashwari Ashok: From the Shadows to Colours: Tracing Film Publicity Materials in Kerala. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Simona Sarma: Item Songs and their Audiences: Exploring Desire, Aurality and Construction of Identity among Indian Youth. School for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
PG in Audio-Visual Studies
Research Paper (monograph of 15,000 words): 8-10 students every year.
Select projects in 2021:
Riya Ashok Kumar. “Analysis of Social Media as a Tool creating Awareness about Animal Rights and Cruelty.”
Atreya Raghavan. “An Enquiry into the Representation of Masculine Identities in the Digital Advertising Medium in India.”
Select Projects in 2022:
Khushali Thakkar. “Twitch and Gender Performativity: A Comparative Study and Analysis of the Behavior and Experience of Popular Game Streamers.”
Snigddha Nalini Oreya. “From Aarti to Akira: Reanalysing the Female Action Hero in Popular Hindi Cinema.”
Shreya Ghalawat. “Women and Bollywood Adult Comedies.”
Select Projects in 2023:
Shashwat Swaroop Jain. “Portrayal of Homosexuality in Popular Hindi Cinema.”
Aashika Jain. “Redefining Motherhood in Popular Hindi Cinema.”
Gunjan Saxena. “Sexual Expression as a Form of Empowerment for Women: An Exploration”
Poetry Project (visual representation of select poems): 4-6 students every year.

Selected Events and Planning

Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Multidisciplinary Seminar Series, Spectrum 2014, Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy, Trivandrum, March 2014.

Convener, UGC-Sponsored National Seminar (Shifting Paradigms in Humanities: From Literature to Cultural Studies) conducted by Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Kerala on 30 Sept and 01 Oct 2015.

Member, Organizing Committee, UGC Sponsored National Seminar (Representations of Subalternity in Cinema: Issues and Challenges in a Globalized India) conducted by Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy in collaboration with the Film Academy, Government of Kerala on 28-29 August 2014.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Media Watch, an International Peer-Reviewed Research Journal in Media and Communication, ISSN 0976-0911 (till 2020).
Member, Organizing Committee, ICMAC, International Conference on Media and Communication, organized by Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, 2023.
Member, Editorial team, FemAsia (Shortlisted for Asian Media Awards, 2022)
Core Member of Symbiosis Centre for Research in Media and Creative Industries

University

Member, Board of Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala (till 2021).
Member, Board of Studies (PG), Humanities, Kannur University (since 2021)