Shohini Ghosh is Sajjad Zaheer Professor and Director (Offg.) of Jamia’s Premchand Archives & Literary Centre. Her primary affiliation is to the AJK MCRC where she has been teaching as a permanent employee since 1990. She has earned her PhD in Film Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; MPS in Communication Studies from Cornell University, Ithaca NY and MA in Mass Communication from MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Ghosh has been Visiting Professor at a number of international universities including the Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA (1990-1996); Globalization-McArthur Fellow at the University of Chicago, Fellow at the Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Group of the Law Department at Keele University, UK; the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of South Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA and James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Ghosh’s longstanding area of interest is the study of media in relation to sexuality and sexuality rights. She has had a two-decade long association with CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Program.

Ghosh’s independent documentary Tales of the Night Fairies (2002) makes an important intervention in the debate on decriminalization of sex work and continues to be used extensively by academics, activists and sex worker groups. The documentary has been screened at Festivals in Australia, USA, UK, Canada, The Netherlands, China, Korea, Mexico, Croatia, South Africa, Thailand, Hong Kong and Brazil. Tales of the Night Fairies was one of the four Indian documentaries to be selected by CNEX channels in China for video streaming for a month in 2012 on site Baidu.com. Ghosh is the author of Fire: A Queer Film Classic published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver in 2010 and reprinted by Orient Publishing, Delhi in 2011. The book is part of the Queer Classics Series edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays.

Ghosh is an essayist whose research interests include History, Theory and the Practice of Independent Documentary Films; Fiction, Non-Fiction & Hybrid films; Bombay/Bollywood Cinema; Gender, Sexuality and the Media;  Speech and Censorship; Stardom Studies, Action Cinema & Cinema of the Senses.  Ghosh’s academic publications can be accessed at https://jamiamilliaislamia.academia.edu/ShohiniGhosh