In my writing, both scholarly and public facing, I think laterally across mediums, exploring the relationship between cinema and still photography, cinema and literature (in work that is forthcoming), cinema and print culture, and more recently, cinema and painting. 

A second line of research veers towards a visual studies-oriented interest in the politics of the iconic image in film. Here, my interest in iconophilia and iconoclasm takes me laterally across disciplines, since film studies, art history, anthropology, and religious studies have all been interested in the iconic image, and the questions of presence, belief, and efficacy that it motivates. 

A third area is more recent: I am interested in figuring out how to study very large corpora of films (in the thousands) and what methods, old and new, would serve such a task, and what new questions emerge when the numerical sublime of Indian cinema becomes central to research questions.

My teaching attends to South Asian visual culture, Indian cinema, film and photographic history and aesthetics, film theory and analysis, and cinemas of the global south (including cinemas of 'small nations').