Navnidhi Sharma
PhD Candidate
Dissertation
Title: Unexpected Itineraries: India-China Encounters in Bombay Cinema, 1930s-70s
Supervisor: Zhen Zhang
Navnidhi Sharma is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. Her doctoral research traces India-China history through popular cultural production in India. Through the archive of Indian cinema and print in the twentieth century, she considers how India-China history is shaped by, and in turn shapes, the history of popular cultural production in India.
Bio
Navnidhi studied Chinese language and literature for masters at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and wrote an M.Phil dissertation on the reception history of Rabindranath Tagore’s Home and the World in China. Before coming to NYU, she worked for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. She has developed and taught her own “Indian Cinemas”course at NYU, and been a teaching assistant on several others (Hollywood,Silent Cinema, Sinophone World Cinemas, and Bollywood).