RESEARCH NETWORK

SANTASIL MALLIK

PhD Candidate

Western University, Canada

 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Santasil Mallik is a writer and visual artist pursuing his PhD in Media Studies from Western University, Ontario, after completing an M.A. and M.Phil. degree in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is interested in mapping the transdisciplinary dialogues between documentary media practices in South Asia and historiographic questions concerning political violence. As a practitioner, he works with photography and video art to develop his creative research trajectory.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Recent articles

2023: The Personal and the Fictional: Aesthetic Mediation in the Indian Documentary, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 43-56.

2023: G.I Photos of Calcutta: Toward a Vernacular Understanding of War, Trans Asia Photography, Vol 13, No. 1.

2022: Time, Trauma, and Photography: ‘Where the Birds Never Sing,’ but Images tend to, Archivo Papers Journal, Vol 2, No. 1, pp. 24-49.