Dr Sonia Ghalian is an interdisciplinary scholar of film, literature, media, and cultural studies. With a strong focus on Indian cinema, she is writing her manuscript titled Contours of Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema, which has been accepted for publication by Orient Blackswan. This work delves into multiple facets of the children’s cinema genre, encompassing the industry as well as the prevalent themes surrounding the portrayal of children and the construction of childhood in contemporary Indian cinema. Prior to her current position, she was teaching at the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Christ University Bangalore for close to three years. She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in 2017, which facilitated her short-term visit to the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity, and Literacy (CRACL) at Nottingham University, England. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences, including the University of Oxford in the UK and Science Po in Paris. Her research interests are Digital Cultures and Technology, Indian Cinema Studies, Gender & Cinema and 20th-Century Literature and the Arts.
