Dr Namrata Sathe graduated with a PhD from the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2020. Her first book project (due to be published by Intellect Books UK) focuses on how mainstream Hindi cinema of the past two decades has captured the pervasiveness of neoliberal values into everyday life. The book theorises on how forms of neoliberal subjectivity, defined by the values of radical individualism and endless, profit-centred self-promotion, contend with existing social structures of caste, class, sexuality, and religious identity in India.

Dr Sathe’s research has been published in leading peer-reviewed media journals such as Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media and the New Review of Film and Television Studies. She has also published book chapters on Hindi cinema in edited volumes. She is the Assistant Editor of the academic journal Studies in South Asian Film and Media. In her work, she prioritises an interdisciplinary, critical-cultural studies approach that encompasses the fields of cinema studies, gender and sexuality studies, feminist media studies, and social theory. 

When she has time off from teaching or writing, you will find her watching Netflix (preferably something that involves murder). She loves reading and is always looking for new book recommendations.