The Celebrity Studies 2024 conference team is proud to announce our first of five trend-setting keynotes: Nandana Bose.

Nandana Bose has published on gender, stardom and celebrity cultures in the context of the Bombay film industry, film censorship, and right-wing interventions in 1990s popular Hindi cinema in such refereed journals as Cinema Journal, Celebrity Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Velvet Light Trap, Studies in South Asian Film and Media and Senses of Cinema. She has received awards and grants from such scholarly organizations as Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Association for Asian Studies (AAS). She is a former Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA and the author of the BFI Film Star series monograph Madhuri Dixit (2019). Her most recent research on the transformation of celebrity cultures in the digital era of global streaming services in post-pandemic India is forthcoming in the edited volume Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age (2024).







