Bijoy Philip VG

Overview

Bijoy Philip has his PhD in Cinema Studies and his thesis was on the issues of memory, time and history in the films and intermedial works of Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnes Varda. His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of literature, media and environment. He received the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF), administered by the Nippon and Tokyo Foundation. Previously, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of English & Cultural Studies at Christ (Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR. He has also taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi as Guest Faculty.

Academic Background

• PhD, Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• MPhil English, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka
• MA English Literature, Madras Christian College, Chennai
• BA English Literature, Loyola College, Chennai

Publications

• Non Human Visions: From Experimental Cinema to Hollywood in “Affective Worldmaking: Routing Planetary Thought” eds. Simi Malhotra, Sakshi Dogra and Jubi C John. Routledge. ISBN 9781032611037
• Left Bank Cinema: Memories of History and the Experience of Time. Tattva - Journal of Philosophy, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 1, p. 1-18, Jan. 2019. ISSN 0975-332X. http://journals.christuniversity.in/index.php/tattva/article/view/1860
• “Marker’s Madeleines: The Essay Beyond Text and Film”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory: Volume 5, Issue 2. ISSN 2457 – 8827. https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2019.8.03  

• Book Review: Films of Mira Nair by Amardeep Singh. Studies in South Asian Film & Media. South Asian Film and Media. Volume 10, Issue 2. Online ISSN1756493X

• Book Review: Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and Other Arts? by Marion Schmid. Studies in European Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2020.1851988

Conference Presentations

• “Women in Agnes Varda: An Ethnography of Becoming”- The Gender Question, 9th JGU International Literary Conference, December 5-6, 2023. OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
• “Non Human Visions”- Young Researcher’s Conference, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, December, 2021
• “Essaying the Anthropocene”— American Comparative Literature Association Conference (ACLA), April 10, 2021.
• “Faces of La Jetée” — 5th International Congress on Humanities and Social Sciences at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), September 2019.
• “Chris Marker—Storytelling through Words, Images and the Digital” — International Conference on ‘Digital memory and Storytelling’, St Joseph’s College (Autonomous) February 2019, Bengaluru.
• “Body and Cyborgs” - ‘Application of Contemporary Literary Theories in Literary and Media Studies’, Madras Christian College, Chennai (India) , March 24th 2010
• Best paper award for Body in Popular Literature and Film at the UGC sponsored National Level Seminar on ‘New Literary Trends’ held at ICG, Jaipur (India) on 29th January 2010