Namrata Rele Sathe
Namrata Rele Sathe holds a PhD in Media Studies from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated to the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences at Krea University, Sri City. She is the author of The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood: Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity (Intellect Books, 2024). Her writing has been published in well-known academic journals such as Jump Cut, Studies in South Asian Film and Media,and the New Review of Film and Television Studies. She has also published book chapters focusing on the media/popular culture work of women and queer creators in edited volumes. She is the Assistant Editor of Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Her research interests include feminist media studies, literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture. She can be reached at namrata.sathe@krea.edu.in