Biography

Kartik Nair is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (2024) and an editor of the journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. With Karen Redrobe, he has edited the forthcoming volume Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, and Freedom from the Classroom (University of California Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Discourse, Mubi Notebook, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His current research explores the physical pipelines of digital imagery, with a focus on the production of global popular genres.

• PhD, Cinema Studies, New York University (2018)
• MPhil, Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2010)
• MA, English, Delhi University (2008)

Learn more about Kartik Nair on his website.