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Shikha Jhingan

Shikha Jhingan

Shikha Jhingan
Shikha Jhingan
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Room No
05, SAA New building
Email
shikhajhingan@mail.jnu.ac.in , Shikha.jhingan@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU

MFA: Performance Studies – Film, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Music, Sound Technologies and Cinema; Stardom and Fan Practices; Genres in Film Music; Discourses around the Sonic Performance of the Voice in Film and Television; Media Archeology; Intermediality. 

Experience
Teaching at the School of Arts and Aesthetics since October 2015

Teaching at the Department of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi from 2006-2015

Research Project with FOCUS 2005-2006.

Worked as an independent Documentary Filmmaker from 1986 – 1988 and, from 1992 - 2005.

Research Project with Majlis 1998-1999.

Founder member of Mediastorm, India’s first women’s film collective which received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding women media professionals in 1992.

Documentaries include Health Matters, 2005; Born to Sing, 2001; Living Through Performance, 1997; The Power of the Image: A Television Series on Bombay Cinema and Prisoner of Gender (1998) which won the Silver Panda second prize at an International Documentary Festival in China (1991).  
Awards & Honours
Awarded Travel Grant by Delhi University Research Council to attend Moving On: South Asian Screen Cultures in a Broader Frame at Westminster University, (2014).

Awarded Habeeb Kidwai Research Fellowship by the Media Resource Centre, AJ Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre for a research project on Teenaged Girls and Global Television (2010).

Awarded FOKUS grant by International Association for Women in Radio and Television for a study on the History of the Female Voice in Hindi Film Songs (2006).

Awarded Artists Residency Fellowship to attend and participate in the Adelaide Arts Festival by Australian Cultural Residency to pursue a project on Digital Documentary Practice (2002).

Awarded Fellowship, Majlis (1999) 
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Sonic Ruptures: Music Mobility and the Media in Media/Utopia: Publics, Politics and the Work of (Mass) Mediation, Arvind Rajagopal and Anupama Rao (Eds.), Routledge, 2016. 

Backpacking Sounds: Sneha Khanwalkar and the “New” Soundtrack of Bombay Cinema in Feminist Media Histroies, 1 (4), 2015, 71-88. 

Teenaged Girls and Global Television: Performing the New Hindi Film Song in Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters & Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures by Susan Dewey and Karen J. Robinson (Ed.) Syracuse, Syracuse University Press. 2012, 125-144.

Lata Mangeshkar’s Voice in the Age of Cassette Reproduction in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, 4 (2), 2013, 97-114.

Re-embodying the 'Classical': The Bombay Film Song in the 1950s in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2 (2), 2011, 157-179 
Patents (if any)

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.