Faculty

Gohar Siddiqui

Gohar Siddiqui

Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

Professor Siddiqui joined the Department of Visual & Performing Arts in Fall 2017. She received a B.A. in English from University of Delhi, India; M.A. degrees in English from University of Delhi and from Bridgewater State in Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Film & Screen Studies from Syracuse University.

Her areas of interest and expertise include: Transnational Film Remakes, Popular Hindi Cinema, Docudrama, Gender in Cinema, Transnational Feminism, and Film Genres (Musical, Melodrama, Noir, and Neo-noir).

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in English (Film and Screen Studies), Syracuse University, 2013
  • M.A. in English, Bridgewater State University, 2006
  • M.A. in English, University of Delhi, 2001
  • B.A. in English, University of Delhi, 1999

Affiliated Department

Visual and Performing Arts

Scholarly and creative works

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Pathaan’s Touch: Cinematic Contact, SRK, and Spectatorship

    Published in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
    2024
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Jugaad Auteurism: Alankrita Shrivastava and Feminist Bollywood

    Published in Journal of Feminist Scholarship
    Fall
    2022
    Issue #21
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Filming Women: A Conversation with Alankrita Shrivastava

    Published in Journal of Feminist Scholarship
    Fall
    2022
    Issue #21
    Gohar T Siddiqui, Anupama Arora, Sandrine Sanos
  • Chapters In Books

    Bollywood’s New Woman
    Chapter: “New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion: Feminist Consciousness in Lipstick Under My Burkha.”

    Published by Rutgers University Press
    2021
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Bridging the Communal Gap: The Star-text of “Hindu-Muslim” Salman Bhaijaan

    Published in Journal of South Asian Popular Culture
    September
    2020
    Vol. 18
    Issue #3
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Chapters In Books

    Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
    Chapter: “Making the Past Present: Intertextuality and Pastiche in Bollywood Neo-Noir.”

    Published by University of Hawaii Press
    2019
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “Docudrama’s Blurred Boundaries: Truth and Fiction in Afghani Cinema”

    Published in Jump Cut
    Fall
    2019
    Vol. 59
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “‘Behind Her Laughter . . . Is Fear’: Domestic Abuse and Transnational Feminism in the Bollywood Remake

    Published in Jump Cut
    2013
    Vol. 55
    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Book

    Déjà-Viewed: Gender, Genre, and Nation in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema.

    Gohar T Siddiqui
  • Chapters In Books

    Bollywood Film Remakes
    Chapter: Invasion of the Zombies: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Bollywood zom-com

    Published by Edinburgh University Press
    Gohar T Siddiqui
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