Isha Sahai Bhatnagar
Isha is a second-year master’s student in the Film and Moving Image Studies program at Concordia University. With an MA in Gender and Social Justice Studies from the University of Alberta, her research interests lie at the intersection of film, media, gender, and sexuality. In her research project at the UofA she focused on how Indian films address and challenge heteronormative frameworks and offer nuanced portrayals of sexual agency through her paper titled 'THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: Resisting Heteronormativity in Indian Cinema and Claiming Sexual Agency'. Previously, she received her BA in Media and Communication Studies from India after which she worked as a political journalist at Hindustan Times, a national daily newspaper in India.
Awards and Scholarships
Merit Scholarship
TAShips
FMST 220 Film Analysis (Fall 2023)
Research Interests
Media, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Decolonization, South Asian Cinema