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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:

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

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

‘Pedagogy as Body Politic: Exploring the Female Body as a Site of War in Saffronised India’ (2025) Fascism: Comparative Journal of Fascist Studies (Brill) special issue. (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

Book Review of 'Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville: Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media' (2024) Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (Forthcoming)

Poetry: ‘Amnesia’ in Abridged 0-99: On The Train and on The Tracks. https://www.abridged.zone/mollie-browne-titas-biswas/

Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21)

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