Publications

Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India (University of California Press, 2024)
South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene, with Anirban K. Baishya (Routledge, 2024)
Handbook on Adult Film History, with Patrick Keilty and Peter Alilunas (Under contract with Intellect Books)

Porn and Its Uses, with Rebecca Holt and Nikola Stepić, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 9, no. 2. 2021.
South Asian Pornographies, with Anirban K. Baishya. Porn Studies 9. no. 3. 2022
South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene, with Anirban K. Baishya. Porn Studies 7. no. 1. 2020.
Subjected to play: Power, Participation and Subjectivity in Gaming and Beyond, with Anirban K. Baishya. Spectator, 38, no. 1 Spring 2018.

The Great Indian Road Trip: Picturing the Post-colony in the Lost Travel Films of Warner Bros. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 5, 2025.
Main/streaming Porn Discourse: Ten Years of Porn Studies and Reminiscing on South Asian Pornocultures co-written with Anirban K. Baishya, Porn Studies, Online First, November 6, 2024, 1-13.
Against Canon: Reflections on Diversifying Film and Media Studies, Communication and Race, Online First, February 14, 2024
Hit like, please subscribe: OnlyFans, camming, and new directions in Indian erotic performance cultures, co-written with Anirban Baishya, Porn Studies. 2023, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2023.2251506
The Anti-Caste Alter-Network: Equality Labs and Anti-Caste Activism in the US, co-written with Anirban Baishya and Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Communication, Culture & Critique, Vol 16. Issue 2. 2023. 99-106
Figuring the aggregated Aunty: netporn, Metadata and South Asian aunties, co-written with Anirban K. Baishya, Text and Performance Quarterly. Vol 42. Issue 3. 2022. 315-331.
Feminism not for all? The discourse around white feminism across five social media platforms, co-written with Borah, Ghosh, Suk and Sun, Social Media + Society July-September 2023. 1-22.
“Think Global, Act Local”: How #MeToo Hybridized Across Borders and Platforms for Contextual Relevance, co-written with Suk, Sun, Li, Farias, Kwon, Ghosh, Borah, Correa, Garlough and Shah, Information, Communication & Society. June 2023
Towards an Incomplete Repertoire of South Asian Pornographies: Challenges, Potentials & Futures, co-written with Anirban K. Baishya. Porn Studies. Vol 9. Issue 3. 2022. 263-272
Satellites of Belonging: Televisual Infrastructures and the Gulf-Malayali, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 14(1-2), 2021. 81-111.
Transnational Ethical Screens: Empathetic Networks in Malayalam Cinema from the Gulf, Film History: An International Journal. 32. 3, Fall 2020. 141-169
Cinema and the Mask of Capital: Labor Debates in the Malayalam Film Industry, Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Vol 11. No 2, December 2020, 173-189.
“Un-sound” Sounds: Pornosonics of Female Desire in Indian Mediascapes, Music, Sound and Moving Image. 13 (1) 2019. 3-30
Translating porn studies: lessons from the vernacular, co-written with Anirban K. Baishya, Porn Studies 7. no. 1. 2020. 2-12
Transgressions in Toonland: Savita Bhabhi, Velamma and the Indian Adult Comic, co-written with Anirban K. Baishya. Porn Studies 7. no. 1. 2020. 115-131.
The Rise of Soft-Porn in Malayalam Cinema and the Precarious stardom of Shakeela, Feminist Media Histories 5. no. 2. 2019. 49-82
Public Interest Television and Social Responsibility: The Search for Missing Person in Indian Television, International Journal for Digital Television 7. no.2 2016. 173-191
The Spectral Duration of Malayalam Soft-porn: Disappearance, Desire and Haunting, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies 7. no. 2. 2016. 127-150
Attukal Pongala: Everyday Lives in a Ritualistic Space, Journal of Ritual Studies 30. no. 1. 2016, 59-69
The House of Ill Repute: Malayalee House, Reality Television and Morality Debates in Contemporary Kerala, South Asian Popular Culture 13. no.1. 2015. 47-59
Attukal Pongala: Youth clubs, Neighborhood Groups and Masculine Performance of Religiosity, in Economic and Political Weekly 49.no. 17 2014. 53-60

Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema Against the Darshanic Gaze, with Priya Jaikumar, in Ishita Dube and Saurabh Dube (eds), with Priya Jaikumar, Handbook of Subalterns across History. Routledge, 27-280.
“Feeling” Malikappuram: Soft-Hindutva and Filmic Mediation of the Sabarimala Controversy in Nissim Mannathukkaren (ed) Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala. Routledge. 2024, 151-170.
Indian Pandemic Entertainment: Aesthetics and Infrastructure in Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks & Noa Lavi (eds) Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked. Routledge: 2024, 112-121.
“Feeling” Malikappuram: Soft-Hindutva and Filmic Mediation of the Sabarimala Controversy in Nissim Mannathukkaren (ed) Saffron in the South: History and the Present of Hindutva in Kerala. Routledge. 2024, 151-170.
Reimaging the Migrant in the Time of the Pandemic with Anirban Baishya, in Rohit Dasgupta, Niharika Banerjea and Paul Boyce (eds) COVID Assemblages: Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia. Routledge. 2022. 34-44.
Locating the “B” in the B-circuit Cinema, in Bhattacharya, Menon and Duggal (eds) Film Studies: An Introduction, Delhi/Kolkata: Worldview Publications. 2022. 319-328.
Star’s Dust: Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the “First Malayalam Female Star, in Michael Lawrence edited Indian Film Stars, London: BFI, Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 45-58
Attukal Pongala: Myth and Modernity in a Ritualistic Space in Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition. Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese (eds.) Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan. 2015. 46-61
When the Ghosts Come Calling: The Disappeared Muses of Malayalam Cinema, Co-written with Vinu Abraham in SARAI Reader 9. Projections. 2013. 336-344

Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Monika Mehta in Conversation about Censorship in India, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64. no. 1. Fall 2024. pp 5-13
Envisioning Gender-Just Content for the Twenty First Century: A Response to Hema Commission Report, co-written with J. Devika, Gayatri Devi, Deepthi Komalam and Bindu Menon. Feminism in India. September 30, 2024.
“Anjali Menon: Championing Female Voices in Malayalam Cinema,” Critical Collective. September 2024
When the Fourth Pillar Crumbles: Press Freedom in the Time of Right-Wing Nationalism, Journalism & Communication Monographs, 25(4), 370-374
Locating Media Industries Podcast, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 3, no. 8, 2023.
“Mysterious Cadavers and Marshy Mishaps in Purusha Pretham,” Critical Collective. May 2023
“Star of the Stream: Sobhita Dhulipala and the New Star-Texts of OTT India,” Critical Collective. October 2022
‘We give sex a good name’: an interview with Paromita Vohra, co-written with Anirban K. Baishya, Porn Studies 9, no. 2. 2022. Pp 384-399
The Ontologies of the Refugee. Docalogue. April 2022.
Dossier on ZEE5, India for the Global Internet Television Consortium, 2021
Where is Cinema? COVID-19 and Shifts in India’s Cinemascape, S.V Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishan et al (eds) “Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics and Audiences” in Indian International Center Quarterly. Winter 2020-Spring 2021. Vol 47, Numbers 3 &4, 106-123.
Body in Keywords in South Asian Film and Media, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies 12, no. 1-2, 2021, 39-42
Book Interview for The Digital Fronter: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web, Communication, Culture and Critique 14, no. 3. 2021, pp 545-549.
“Minnal Murali: Provincializing Superhero Films”, Critical Collective. February 2022.
What Women Want: Gendered Precarity and Labor Organizing in the Indian Film Industry, in Ammu Joseph, Bina Paul et al (eds). Shift Focus: Women Shaping the Narrative in Media and Entertainment. Published by Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) & Sakhi Women’s Resource Center, 2020, 62-74.
Miss Kumari’s Stardom: Malayalam’s First Studio Actress, Swatantryavaadini, August 2020.