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Titas Biswas

Lecturer, Media studies

Biography

Titaś Biswas is a sociologist and media/film scholar. Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing from sub-disciplines associated with the social sciences as well as arts and humanities and world literatures.

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 lecture on social psychology, conflict, film scholarship, media and communications, gender studies 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

Research Interest

Historical Sociology, Conflict Studies, Body Politics, Gender Studies, Memory Studies, Film and

Publications

  • ‘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.

  • Invited contribution: ‘Cluster B Personality Disorders as a Site of Critical Subjectivity:

Schizoanalytical Exploration of Neoliberalisation of the Discourse of Affect’. (2025)

International Journal of Psychiatry Research. Scivision Publishers.

  • Poetry: ‘Amnesia’ in Abridged 0-99: On The Train and on The Tracks (Forthcoming on Nov 07, 2024)
  • Book Review of ‘Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville: Developing Philosophy through

Audiovisual Media’ (2024) Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (Forthcoming)

  • Invited commentary: ‘Analysing History, Discourse and ‘Absence’ in Memory Culture in

German Curricula: A Psychoanalytical Commentary’ (2024) Psychology and Psychotherapy:

Research Study (PPRS). Crimson Publishers.https://dx.doi.org/10.31031/PPRS.2024.08.000686 (Forthcoming)

  • ‘Analysing History, Discourse and ‘Absence’ in German Memory Culture: A Psychoanalytical

Commentary’ (2024) International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education: Subject, Action

& Society. (Forthcoming)

  • 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

  • Contributed as a historian to the first book project of the largest oral history archive based in South Asia: ‘10000 Memories’ published by The 1947 Partition Archive. Accessible at: https://10000memories.com
  • 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

  • Mental Health Problems as Symptoms of Social Crisis, International Agenda, Schoolcraft

College Michigan, Winter 2020 Edition (Pages 40-42)

https://www.schoolcraft.edu/docs/librariesprovider47/internationalagenda/archive/iatextw20.pdf

  • 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

  • ‘’Quantity’: Exploring Semanticity and the Philosophy of History in Marxist Literature’ coauthored with Dr. Samir Karmakar, Director of the School of Languages and Linguistics,

Jadavpur University and Sourajeet Mitra. The Bengali version is titled ‘মার্ক্সিয় ভাবনায় গণিত এবং ইতিহাসের দর্শন’(2019), Alochana Chakra: Karl Marx. pp. 90-100. ISSN 2231-399

  • India’s far right on the rise as militant Hinduism grips the nation; The London Economic

(2018) https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/indias-far-right-on-the-rise-asmilitanthinduism-grips-the-nation/28/03

Book Review of ‘Language Matters’ by B.N. Patnaik. (2018). Publisher: Dhauli Books. ISBN-10:9788193602560. Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics http://jjll.jdvu.ac.in/journal/index.php/JJLL/article/view/101/92

Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Sociology with a minor in Linguistics (Jadavpur University, 2021)

MSc Comparative Social Change (Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, 2022) 

Structured PhD in Sociology (University College Dublin; Expected award: September 2026