Debashree Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of film and media in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. Her forthcoming book, Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (Columbia University Press, 2020), brings together film historiography, new materialisms, postcolonial studies, and technology studies to narrate a practice-oriented history of Indian cinema. She is core editor with the peer-reviewed journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, and regularly curates film exhibitions. In a previous life Debashree worked in Mumbai’s film and TV industries as an assistant director, writer, and cameraperson. She is currently working on two separate projects: one is a media history of indentured labor and oceanic migrations, and the other is a collaborative project on social media and the aesthetics of violence.
