Dr. Sonia Ghalian

Education

• Ph.D. in English, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
• M.Sc. in Media and Communications, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
• B.A (Hons) in English, Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi (DU), Delhi

Profile

Sonia Ghalian is an interdisciplinary scholar of film, literature, media, and cultural studies. She is currently working as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Division of Literature and Arts at Krea University in India. Prior to her current position, Sonia was teaching at the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Christ University Bangalore for close to three years. She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in 2017, which facilitated her visit to the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity, and Literacy (CRACL) at Nottingham University, England. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences, including the University of Oxford in the UK and Science Po in Paris.

With a strong focus on Indian cinema, she is working on her manuscript titled “Contours of Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema” which has been accepted for publication by Orient Blackswan. This work delves into multiple facets of the children’s cinema genre, encompassing the industry as well as the prevalent themes surrounding the portrayal of children and the construction of childhood in contemporary Indian cinema.

Research Interests

• Digital Cultures and Technology
• Indian Cinema Studies
• Gender and Cinema
• 20th-Century Literature and the Arts

Publications

Book Chapters: 

• Ghalian, S. (2020). In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema. In: Wilson, B., Gabriel, S. (eds) Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age. Asia-Pacific and Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. 
• Ghalian, S. (2019). In Search of the Elusive Bird: Childhood from the Margins in Fandry. In: Hermansson, C., Zepernick, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Peer-Reviewed and Indexed Journal Publications:

• Ghalian, S. (2021) Review of Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives. Michael Lawrence (Ed) London: The British Film Institute/Bloomsbury, 2020. In SARE: SouthEast Asian Review of English. Vol 58, No.1.
• Ghalian, S. (2019) Review of Children and Media in India: Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies) by Shakuntala Banaji (2016). In Media Education Research Journal, Vol 8.2, 2019.
• Ghalian, S. (2018) “Films for Children.” In Oxford Bibliographies Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather Montgomery. NewYork: Oxford University Press.
• Ghalian, S. (2018) “Tramping it out: Charlie Chaplin and the Modern”. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol IX, No 2. ISSN Number- – 0975- 2935.

Other Articles:

• Ghalian, S. (2022) THE WIRE, “Homebound’ Makes Sure We Don’t Forget the 2020 Migrant Crisis”, Book review of Homebound (HarperCollins 2021)
• Ghalian, S. (2021) THE WIRE, “The Town Slowly Empties’ Mirrors Changing Realities of Our Modern Existence”, Book review of The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown (Headpress 2021)