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Current/Recent Teaching:

Undergraduate:

  • Year 1 UG core course 'Art of Film: Introduction to Film Studies'
  • Year 1 UG core course 'Introduction to Drama'
  • Year 2 UG core course 'Screen, Culture and Society'
  • Year 2 and 3 UG option 'Bollywood: Popular Hindi Cinema 1947 - Present'
  • Year 2 and 3 UG option 'Black on Screen: Representations of African, Caribbean and Asians in the Media'

Postgraduate:

  • MA option 'Bollywood: Issues in Popular Hindi Cinema'
  • MA option 'Black on Screen: Issues in Representation'
  • MA core course 'Screen Research Methodologies'
  • Successful supervision of 3 PhDs to submission in 2002
  • Current supervision of PhDs on:
  • Ideology and Contemporary Science-Fiction Cinema; The Sexual, National and Racial Other in Hollywood Horror; The Aesthetics of the Emotions in the Popular Cinemas of India and Italy; Male Anger in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema; Female archetypes and identity in 1950s Science Fiction cinema; New Paradigms for Researching Theatre Audiences at the Contact Theatre, Manchester; and Contemporary Bangladeshi Cinema: Challenges in a Digital Media Age.
  • MPhil supervision on: Queer South Asian Visual Cultures across the Brown Atlantic

Additional Experience:

MA Screen Studies Programme Director

UG External Examiner: BA(Hons) Film and Media Studies Programmes, University of Exeter

PhD External Examiner: IOE, University of London; University of Brighton; University of Leeds

AHRC Peer Review College Member: Academic and International panels

Select Media and Visual Culture Productions

I am researching and curating a project in partnership with Subash Singh Pall of Kranti Media, Punch Records in Birmingham, SHISHA in Manchester (the international agency for contemporary South Asian arts crafts and visual culture), and with Kamat Foto Flash studios in Mumbai, India, on 'Bollywood Action Stills Photography'. This exhibition is being prepared for tour in the UK from mid-2008 onwards. Further details at:

R.K. Dudrah (2006) 'Diasporic Bollywood Cinema Going as South Asian Presence', part of the 'Performing Presence: from the Live to the Simulated' website. A research project managed by the University of Exeter, University College London, and Stanford University. Web link: http://spa.exeter.ac.uk/drama/presence/presence.stanford.edu_3455/Collaboratory/735.html

I have been a script reader and adviser for Maverick Television (Birmingham) on their Crossovers project which mentored 6 British feature film scriptwriters with their work. I have also researched and written with Dr Malcolm Dick entries on the social history of Handsworth's (Birmingham) post-war development for Birmingham City Council's on-line Digital Handsworth project, project website: www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk

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