I am a scholar of media and cultural studies. My work examines media industries, production cultures, gender and sexuality, digital cultures, and architecture and design.

My first book, Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India, is forthcoming from New York University Press in January 2025. It explores the post-globalization transformation of India’s screen and exhibition industries within a longer arc of ideas about urban planning and architecture, long mired in caste- and class-based gendered anxieties.

Currently, I am working on new research projects on the histories of screenwriting in Bombay and as well as the arrival of streaming video and digital entertainment cultures. My work has been published in journals like Television and New Media; International Journal of Cultural Studies; Feminist Media Studies; South Asian Popular Culture; Porn Studies; and Synoptique.

I am an Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media in the Department of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. My graduate and undergraduate classes cover topics such as media and globalization, feminist media studies, Indian Cinema, and global digital cultures.

Before joining UCD, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Global Media Studies Initiative at the Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I have a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin.

I am Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.