Dr Krupa Chandrakant Desai | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Krupa Chandrakant Desai

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Culture, School of Media and Cultural Studies

Qualification

Ph.D - Birbeck, University of London

M.Phil - Jawaharlal Nehru University

M.A - Tata Institute of Social Sciences

B.A - Mumbai University

Contact

krupa.desai[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

krupa.desai@tiss.edu

My PhD research looked at the social histories of photographic vision in twentieth century India. Broadly, I work within culture studies, photography, and performance practices and their intersection with critiques of developmentalism and social histories of environment. My research has been supported by GoI Research Fellowships, Inlaks Foundation, London Art History Fund, The Wellcome Foundation, and The School of Arts Research Award at Birkbeck.

Culture studies, photography and new media studies, psychoanalytic theory, representation of developmentalism and environmental debates in twentieth century in print and photography, performance studies, art theory

Desai K C, The Master as a Transnational Figure, 2020. Membrana Vol 5, No 2. Link - https://doi.org/10.47659/m9.078.art

Art project ‘Being a Witness’ at Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures, group show at the Furniture Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Community Art project ‘Dilli Darshan’ at Interfaces of Being, Korean Culture Centre, New Delhi 2017, Co-Curator for Student’s Biennale as a part of Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014.

Understanding Art and Music (SMCS TISS, MA 2nd Year)

Visual Design (SMCS TISS, MA 2nd year)

Understanding Visual Culture (MA TISS, 1st year)

MA seminar course on Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture and Photography (Birkbeck University of London)

BA seminar course module on Semiotics and Meaning-making (Birkbeck University of London)