DEBJANI DUTTA ! [email protected] !EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts In progress Cinema and Media Studies Minor: Visual Studies Graduate Certificate !Dissertation Chair: Akira Mizuta Lippit M.Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Arts and Aesthetics 2010-12 Cinema Studies Dissertation Title: Material Avatars: a Sensuous Cartography of the Korean Wave ! Dissertation Chair: Ranjani Mazumdar M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Social Sciences 2008-10 !Sociology B.A, University of Delhi 2005-08 Sociology (Hons.) !! !EMPLOYMENT University of Southern California 2015-18 Teaching assistant, Department! of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts Korean Cultural Centre India 2012-13 Cinema Programme Coordinator !! !PUBLICATION Journal article Dutta, Debjani. 2014. “The Attack of the Pig Rabbit: The Mediatized Object of the Korean Wave.”Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 6, no. 2: 202–16.

! !AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES Mellon USC Humanities in a Digital World PhD Fellowship 2018-20 Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Research Grant 2018 USC Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant 2018 Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Travel/Research Award 2018 Researcher-in-residence, Signal Culture, Owego, NY 2018 USC Transpacific Graduate Fellow, Center for Transpacific Studies 2014 USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship 2014-19 Academy of Korean Studies Thesis Grant 2013 ! !SELECTED PRESENTATIONS “Choreographing Spaces: K-Pop Flash Mobs and Fan Activism,” USC Korean Studies Institute Graduate !Student Symposium, Los Angeles, California, January 2017 “Choreographing Spaces: K-Pop Flash Mobs and Fan Activism,” University of Pittsburgh Graduate !Student Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2015 “Choreographing Spaces: K-Pop Flash Mobs and Fan Activism,” Asia Research Institute, National !University of Singapore, Singapore, January 2014 “The Attack of the Pig Rabbit: The Mediatized Object of the Korean Wave,” Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Annual Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 2012 ! !ACADEMIC SERVICE !Peer review board member, Spectator, USC Journal of Film and Television Criticism, 2018 Conference Chair, “Con+tagion,” First Forum, ZdC Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, !2017. !Academic Chair, ZdC: Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Association, 2016 -17 Conference Co-chair, “Subjected to Play: Locating the Subject in the Promise of Play,” First Forum, ZdC !Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, 2016. Member of Conference Organizing Committee, “The Global Sixties and Its Cultural Afterlife,” School of !Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2011 !Talks Organized at USC !Sulgi Lie, “The Comic Camera: Composite Images in Buster Keaton's Cameraman,” November 22, 2016 !Aniko Imré, “TV Socialism,” book talk, December 2, 2016 Peter Sachs Collopy, “The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: The Videofreex, the Black Panther Party and !the Politics of New Media,” February 24, 2017 Akira Mizuta Lippit, “Cinema Without Reflection,” book talk, April 14, 2017 ! !TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant 2015-18 !Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California • Led discussion sections, counseled students and graded papers and exams for the following courses: Introduction to Cinema, History of the International Cinema I, and History of the International Cinema II • Course assistance, grading and logistical support for the following courses: History of Global Cinema ! before WWII, Latin American Cinema after 1960, and Asian Horror Cinema Teaching Assistant 2013 !School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University !• Led remedial classes for graduate students for the course Introduction to Film Studies Guest Lectures

“Race and Gender Identity in Brazil,” University of Southern California, Latin American Cinema after !1960 (Course Instructor: Dr. Laura Isabel Serna), March 2017 “The Narrative Avant-Garde and Medium Specificity,” University of Southern California, History of !International Cinema I: 1896-1945 (Course Instructor: Dr. Laura Isabel Serna), October 2016 “Introduction to Korean Cinema,” Ambedkar University Delhi, Histories of Cinema (Course Instructor: Dr. !Bindu Menon Mannil), March 2013 ! !SELECTED CURATING, SCREENING AND LECTURE SERIES PROGRAMMING “An Evening with Claudio Caldini moderated by Dr. David James,” screenings and discussion with the filmmaker, co-curated with Los Angeles Filmforum as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA and !First Forum ZdC Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, October 2017 “Heterotopias: VR Experience as Contagious Physicality,” VR exhibit by Szilvia Ruszev and Noa !Kaplan, part of First Forum ZdC Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, October 2017 “Women Who Dared: Focus on Korean Women Filmmakers,” screening and lecture series co- curated with International Association of Women in Radio and Television, Korean Cultural Centre !India, March 2013 “Circuits of Cinema: Malayalam ‘New Wave’ and Korean Cinema,” documentary screening and lecture by Asst. Prof Bindu Menon Mannil (University of Delhi), Korean Cultural Center India, !January 2013 “Country Focus: South Korea,” curated package of films for the 11th Pune International Film Festival, January 2013 !