Centre For Media Studies

Mr. Sumit Dasgupta

Assistant Professor, HOD

  • Academic Experience:

    4 years

    Work Experience:

    2 years

  • Qualification:

    Qualification: MSc, Ph D (Ongoing)

Mr. Sumit Dasgupta

Assistant Professor, HOD


# Degree Subject University, place ,year
1 PhD (Ongoing) Media Studies Christ (Deemed to be University)
2 M.Sc Mass Communication Bangalore University, St. Joseph's College, 2016
3 B.A Arts (English, Psychology, Journalism) Bangalore University, Shri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, 2013

Presented two papers in the international conference 21st century New Populism in Christ University.
Presented Emergence of Indian Professional Wrestling - A new populism and Mapping Queerness in Malayalam Cinema - Representations across time, space and form

Short poem got a published in the book, "New Voices in the New Age" at the TOI Literary Carnival in 2014.
Rangzen was the official selected documentary film in "International Documentary & Short film festival of Kerala in 2016.
Documentary film "Rangzen" was an official selection in the 9th 2016 and Calcutta International Cult film festival 2017 respectively.
Won the Audience award in the Feel the Reel UK International film festival 2017 for "Rangzen"
Won the Special Jury award for "Rangzen" at the International film festival of Prayag, Delhi 2017.
Won the Best Documentary award for "Rangzen" at the 6th International Bangalore film festival 2017.
Rangzen was the semi-finalist in the 'Caribbean film festival & Market' in 2017
"The film Rangzen won the Jury award for the best documentary film in the 'Indian World Film festival 2018'"
Conducted a poetry workshop organised by Adidas Originals titled 'Weaving Words' under the 'Creators Collective' series in 2020.
Worked on the award winning documentary films Ammi and Our Gauri as sequence editor and camera person respectively.

Received certification from 'Film Companion' for the online course of 'Film Criticism and review writing' in 2020