ABOUT:
My research interests lay at the intersection of critical cultural studies, film and media studies and the rhetoric of space and place. I am interested in understanding the nature of power relation within the transnational and transregional spaces and how that shapes the contemporary representations of colonialism in the popular culture, with a particular emphasis on film. I want to examine, the transnational and transcultural cinema to investigate how colonialism functions outside of the Western context. I want to address how contemporary colonial structure impacts identity formation of displaced populations, while moving the study of colonialism away from traditional Western narratives. I specifically want to examine cinematic representations of displacement, migration, indigeneity and citizenship from a critical colonial gaze.
Going forward with my research I would like to incorporate the theoretical frameworks of post/colonialism, critical regionalism, and critical cultural studies in my scholarship I am particularly inspired by the works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and her research in the post-colonial identity and the subaltern. Within the communication discipline I draw on the works of Stuart Hall and his critical interventions in the popular cultural space, Kent A. Ono and his neocolonial and post-colonial approach to cinema and Raka Shome and her research on post-colonial culture, media and transnational communication. I use film studies as a mode of critical cultural analysis drawing on my experience as a film maker.
EDUCATION:
B. A. English Honours from Bijoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya(2018)
M.A. English Literature and Culture Studies from the University of Burdwan(2020)
PUBLICATIONS:
Roy, Elja, Sneha Goswami. “Community Communication and Digital Archive, Case Study of Beyond the Border: Archiving the Art and Activism of Sundarbans Movement”. UNESCO Chair Community Communication Edited Volume (Accepted).
Works in Progress:
Levina, Marina, Kalemba Kitzo, Sneha Goswami, “His House (2022), Monstrosity, and Film Representations of Refugee Experience,” (manuscript under preparation for submission to Critical Studies in Media Communication)
Film:
Bones (2021) https://youtu.be/WJpbULq7pAM?si=W_BJDHxEhvf5N34d