Koel Banerjee
Visiting Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Office Phone: (404) 894-2730
Office Location: Skiles 341
Email Address: kbanerjee33@gatech.edu
Overview
Education:
- PhD (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
- MPhil (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)
- M.A. (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)
- B.A. Honors (Presidency University, Kolkata, India)
Interests
Teaching Interests:
Bollywood cinema, consumer culture, cultural studies, diasporic cinema, film theory, genre theory, media history, melodrama, platform media, postcolonial film and literatures, postmodernism, sociology of culture, South Asian film, star studies, transnational cinema.
Research Interests:
Cinemas of the Global South, consumption and citizenship, critical theory, cultures of globalization, diasporic films, melodrama, neoliberal aesthetics, and the sociology of culture.
Research Fields:
- Digital Media
- Hindi
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
Issues:
- Aesthetics
- Cinema Studies
- Diaspora Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Film History and Theory
- Globalization and Localization
- History and Memory
- Language and Popular Culture
- Literary Theory
- Media
- Mediatized Culture
- Post-Colonialism
- Television Studies
Courses
- GMC-8803: Special Topics
- LMC-2500: Intro to Film
- LMC-3252: American Popular Film Genres
- LMC-3257: Bollywood Cinema
- ML-6501: Theory & Foundations Sem
Publications
Journal Articles
- Love Is Elsewhere: Neoliberalism and the Tourist Romance
In: Camera Obscura [Peer Reviewed]
- ‘Nothing else besides a father’: Logan and the paternal melodrama
In: Screen [Peer Reviewed]
Updated: Feb 10th, 2026 at 1:04 PM