Assistant Professor
South Asia, Food History, South Asian Religion, Horror cinema, Hindi cinema, Comics and Graphic novels
Email: aditi.sen@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 78685
Office: Watson 103
Education
PhD, Deccan College Research Institute, India
About
I am a historian of South Asian religion, sexuality, gender and food history. My recent research has been in the field of history of horror in South Asian cinema and popular culture. Drawing from a criminal case from 1892 in Bombay, my current project is on forensics in colonial India and the role it played in determining criminal cases.
Publications
Book
Bollywood Horrors: Atrocity, Religion and Cinematic Fears in India. Edited with Ellen Goldberg and Brian Collins. (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Chapters and Articles
“Do you want to know the Raaz?: Sāvitri, Satyavān and the Other Woman.” In Bollywood Horrors. (Bloomsbury, 2020).
“Making of a Monster: The Various Villains of Hindi Horror Comics.” In Kasia Ancuta and Deimantas Valanciunus eds. South Asian Gothic Collection (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2020).
‘“I Wasn’t Born with Enough Middle Fingers’: How low-budget horror films defy sexual morality and heteronormativity in Bollywood.” Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 12, no. 2 (2011): 75-90.
Regular contributor to The Hindu, Livemint and Open Magazine.