Bindu Menon Mannil
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- History of Media
- Cultural Theory
- Religion and Media
- Gulf Studies
- Media and Mobility
- Sound Culture Studies
- Gender Studies
Biography
Prior to joining the University, I was Assistant Professor at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi (2005−2020).
I received my PhD in Cinema and Cultural Studies from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. My doctoral research was supported by the Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission Junior Research Fellowship, Sarai ‑CSDS Urban research fellowship, Charles Wallace Archival Research Grant, and SPEAR Grant for archival research.
I have held three post-doctoral fellowships at the Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria (Canada), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Shimla) and International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands).
My journey to the University reaffirms to me the importance of undergraduate education and reflects my desire to create interdisciplinary media studies for liberal education.
Extending my service to the wider field, I serve in the editorial board of Studies in South Asian Film and Media and the advisory board of Cinema and Media cultures in the Middle East Series, Peter Lang Publishing.
Courses
Media and Communications
A historical approach to media theory in communication research.
Publications
Chapter in Edited Book
- Mannil, B. (2010). Malayalam Middle Cinema and the Category of Woman. In Meena Pillai (Ed.), Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies (pp.105 — 121). Orient Blackswan. https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788125038658
Journal Articles
- Mannil, B. M. (2020). The gendered film worker: Women in cinema collective, intimate publics and the politics of labour. Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 11(2), 191 — 207. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00028_1
- Menon, B. (2017). Affective returns: Biopics as life narratives. Biography, 40(1), 116 — 139. http://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2017.0006
- Menon, B., & Sreekumar, T.T. (2016). “One more Dirham”: Migration, Emotional Politics and Religion in the Home Films of Kerala. Migration, Mobility & Displacement, 2(2), 4 — 23. https://doi.org/10.18357/mmd22201615029
- Menon, B. (2013). The blazon call of hip hop: Lyrical storms in Kerala’s musical cultures. Journal of Creative Communications, 8(2 — 3), 231 — 250. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/10.1177%2F0973258613512574
- Menon, B. (2011). Sketches for a film which never happened: Appan Thampuran’s Bhootarayar. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2(2), 181 — 188. https://doi.org/10.1177/097492761100200205
Online Articles
- Menon, B. (2018). Media free zones: Precarious labour and migrant vernaculars in Emirati cities. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/media-free-zones-precarious-labour-migrant-vernaculars-emirati-cities
- Menon, B. (2009). Romancing history and historicizing romance. Seminar-India, 598, 28 — 35. https://www.india-seminar.com/2009/598/598_bindu_menon_m.htm
- Menon, B. (2020, December 12). Kim Ki duk: The man who took our breath away. Manorama Online. https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2020/12/11/kim-ki-duk-obituary-kerala-iffk.html
- Menon, B. (2021, January 31). Miasmic screens: Contagion and control in early 20th century cinema halls. Ala, 29. http://ala.keralascholars.org/issues/29/contagion-and-control-in-cinema-halls/
Conference papers
- Menon, B. (2018, July) Civic Virtues, Migrants, and Video Volunteers: Visual Conscriptions in Contemporary Dubai. In Migrants in the Globalizing City: Spaces, Places and Mobilities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, INALCO Le Salons, Paris.
- Menon, B. (2018, October) Vernacular Tongues, Migratory Aesthetics: Film Cultures, Futurities and Citizenship in Dubai. In Film and Visual Media in the Gulf, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
- Menon, B (2020, February) Audible Loves: ‘Dubai Letter’ and the transnational subjects of music. In Oceanic Circularities: Indian Ocean in the Modern World, University of Georgetown, Doha.
- Menon, B (2021, March) Between the Ocean and the Desert: Hydropoetics and the Archipelagic Worlds of Indian Cinema. In Society for Cinema and Media Studies( Virtual Conference).