Meghna Bohidar holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Indraprastha College, Delhi University and a postgraduate degree (MA) in Psychology from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She is completing her PhD from the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis entitled “Performances of Romance: Exploring ‘Love’ in Public Spaces” is an ethnographic study (2018 to 2020) of young unmarried heterosexual couples in Delhi. The thesis approaches romance as a visible spatialized performance and how diverse city spaces like parks, malls, metro stations and the university campus shape the possibility of romance and how couples tactically transform these spaces through bodily presence, movement and affective claims.
Her publications include two chapters: “Performances of ‘Reel’ and ‘Real’ Life: Negotiating Public Romance in Urban India” in The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love (2021) and “Public Romance in India and its Transgressive Potential” Love and the Politics of Care (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance and has regularly participated in their international conferences held biennially since 2018, where she has presented her doctoral work. Her other research interests include sociology of emotions, cinema studies, urban studies and critical psychology.
She has taught as a Guest Lecturer in Lady Irwin College, Delhi University and as a Humanities Editor for Cactus Communications.