Sudha started following the work of Shuddhabrata Sengupta.
Sudha started following the work of Eggo Müller, Utrecht University, Media and Culture Studies.
Sudha is writing about the construction of the 'audience' in contemporary Russian cultural discourses.
Department Member, Media and Culture Studies
affiliated researcher
Media Studies
About
Research interests:
Audiences/users/publics, new media, television, cinema, cultural citizenship, celebrity, media and political economy, transnationalism.
Areas:
Russia (main), Central Asia and South Asia (supplementary).
Bio:
Research Affiliate with the Media Studies Group (Research Institute for History and Culture) in the University of Utrecht. Deputy editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media www.digitalicons.org
Studied in the University of Bombay (India) and in Moscow (Russia), and went on to do a PhD in Russian history in Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Doctoral work, a product of archival and ethnographic research in Russia, was an ethno-historical study of Indian cinema's reception in the post-Stalinist Soviet era.
Worked as researcher in the International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam) and the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Leiden). Written on culture and politics for the digital publication 'Power of Culture' (Amsterdam), and currently curator of the Prajnya Archives for the visual documentation of women in public life in South Asia. Central Asia, particularly, Uzbekistan, remains an abiding interest.
