Sourav Saha

About

Presently a Final year Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Humanities and Management at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. Qualified UGC-NET with Junior Research Fellowship in English Literature in December 2019. His areas of interest include Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Media Studies, Feminist Studies, South Asian Literature, Indian Writing in English, Popular Culture, Horror Studies, and Literary Theory. He has published extensively in highly ranked Web of Science and Scopus-indexed journals.

Employment

• Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar PhD Research Scholar
  2021 - Present

Education

• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar PhD (Pursuing)
  2021 - Present

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (17)

• The evolving dynamics of queer representation in Bollywood cinema: A Reading of Homonationalist aspirations in Badhaai Do (2022)
  National Identities 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2026.2664737
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• Book review: Zahra Stardust, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance StardustZahra, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 328 pp, $28.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478031062.
  European Journal of Cultural Studies 2026 DOI: 10.1177/13675494261437461
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• Spectral returns: Trauma of rape and neo-liberal violence in Khauf (2025)
  Studies in South Asian Film & Media 2026 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00115_1
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• Reading the Representation of Queerness in the Pakistani Film Joyland (2022)
  South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2026 DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2026.2674460
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• Book review: Smita Banerjee, Modernities and the Popular Melodrama: The Suchitra–Uttam Yug in Bengali Cinema
  BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 2025 DOI: 10.1177/09749276251338867
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• A queer way of feeling: girl fans and personal archives of early Hollywood by Diana W. Anselmo
  Feminist Media Studies 2025 DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2024.2361029
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• Transcending the Human/Post-Human Boundary: Exploring the Ambivalence Concerning the Post-Human in Netflix’s 'Black Mirror'
  Re-thinking Posthumanism across the Global South: An Introduction 2025
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• Bollypolitics: Popular Hindi Cinema and Hindutva, Ajay Gehlawat (2024)
  Studies in South Asian Film & Media 2025 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00098_5
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• Filming death: end-of-life documentary cinema
  Studies in Documentary Film 2025 DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2025.2456353
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• Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947
  Sikh Formations 2025 DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2025.2513175
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