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Titaś Biswas

Titaś Biswas is a sociologist and media/film scholar. Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing from the social sciences as well as arts and humanities and world literatures. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the UCD School of Sociology. She also works as a lecturer in Media Studies at Carlow College St Patrick’s and as a Research Assistant on the Horizon-Europe funded project INSPIRE (Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded) based in ISS21 and the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC.

She has worked as a lecturer in Ireland across various third level institutions. Her teaching experience is, as an extension of her research work, interdisciplinary and eclectic. She lectures on social psychology, conflict, film studies, media and communications, gender and memory studies and aims to continue working as an educator and researcher in the future.

The body of her written work stretches beyond academia into the realms of journalism, creative writing and occasionally poetry. She has worked briefly in the entertainment industry as a reviewer, blogger and writer for talent agencies.

Selected Publications:
  • IWN Hosts First Intercultural Event to Raise Awareness about the Irish Pilot of INSPIRE coauthored with Dr Catherine Forde and Dr Vanessa Liston (2025). INSPIRE - Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded (Horizon Europe). https://www.inspiredemocracy.eu/post/iwn-hosts-first-intercultural-event-to-raiseawareness-about-the-irish-pilot-of-inspire
  • ‘Pedagogy as Body Politic: Exploring the Female Body as a Site of War in Saffronised India’ (2025) Fascism: Comparative Journal of Fascist Studies special issue. Brill. (Forthcoming)
  • ‘Coloniality, Fascist Historiography and the Body: Exploring the Relationship between Saffronised Education and Memory Politics’ (2025) Edited Volume on Racism and the Far Right in Ireland (Eds. Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo and Dr Egle Gusciute). Routledge. (Forthcoming)
  • Book Review of 'Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville: Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media' (2025) Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (Forthcoming)
  • 'Exploring Discursive Absence of Colonialities in German Pedagogies: A Sociological-Psychoanalytical Exploration', International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education: Subject, Action & Society, 4(2), 88–102. https://doi.org/10.32111/SAS.2024.4.2.7
  • Invited Contribution: Analysing History, Discourse and ‘Absence’ in Memory Culture in German Curricula: A Psychoanalytical Commentary (2024) Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Studys, 8(3). Crimson Publishers. https://crimsonpublishers.com/pprs/fulltext/PPRS.000686.php
  • Poetry: ‘Amnesia’ in Abridged 0-99: On The Train and on The Tracks. https://www.abridged.zone/mollie-browne-titas-biswas/
  • Class-Caste Politics, Hierarchy, and Hindutva in Indian Cinema and Protest Theatre. (2023) Co-authored with A. Banerjee. Wasafiri (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2208970
  • Book Review of ‘The Integration of the Second Generation in Germany: Results of the TIES Survey on the Descendants of Turkish and Yugoslavian Migrants’ by Inken Sürig and Mauren Wilmes. (2022). Publisher: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN: 978 90 8964 842 6. Sociological Research Online. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804221106202
  • Pedagogical Curricula and Educational Media: The Malignancy of Saffronised Otherisation in India. Zoon Politikon (2020), pp 146-199. https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.20.006.13008

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