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)
- Intellect Handbook on Adult Film History, with Patrick Keilty and Peter Alilunas (Intellect Books, 2026)
- Cinema and Pleasure, with Anselmo, Diana W, Caetlin Benson-Allot, Maggie Hennefeld, Lorenzo Marmo, Girish Shambu,,Film Quarterly 79, no. 1. 2025.
- 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.
- Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method, Verge: Study in Global Asias 11, no. 2 (2025): 165-190.
- 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
- Malayalam Soft-Porn and Discursive Networks of the ‘Sex-Siren.’ In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas, edited by Ajay Gehlawat and Jayson Beaster-Jones. 390-404. London: Routledge, 2026.
- Narration, Empathy, and the Asylee Body in Flee. In Flee Docalogue Book Series, edited by Jamie Baron and Kristen Fuhs. 21-33. London: Routledge, 2025
- (Un)Reading Flee. In Teaching Migration in Literature, Film and Media, edited by Masha Salazkina and Yumna Siddiqi. 220-227. New York: Modern Literature Association, 2025.
- Gandi Baat with Anirban Baishya. In Screening Adult Cinema, edited by Desirae Embree, Peter Alilunas and Farrah Freibert (eds.) 357-367. London: Routledge, 2025.
- filmindia and its Publics: Magazine Culture, the Expert, and the Industry. In Global Movie Magazines edited by Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway. 37-56. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
- South Asian Pornographies, with Anirban Baishya, In Handbook on Adult Film History edited by Patrick Keilty, Peter Alilunas and Darshana Mini. 480-493. Intellect Books
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.
- 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
- Thinking Globally as a Feminist Method, Women’s Studies in Communication 1–4, 2026.
- Mini, Darshana Sreedhar, Media Ecologies of Transnationalism and Liberalization: NRIs, Piracy and “Blue Films” in 1980’s India,” CASI, June 9, 2025.
- Censorship, a Hurt Story: Hindutva and Populism in Post-Economic Liberalization, with Monika Mehta. Film Quarterly 78, no. 4 (2025) 8-16.
- 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.
- Sounding Out Accent: Field Notes on Otherness, South Asian Review 45(4), (2024): 532–536.
- 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), (2024): 370-374.
- What the Hema Committee reports tells us about workers’ rights — and how to ensure them, The Indian Express, September 4, 2024.
- 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.