Khorana, Sukhmani

Overview

Sukhmani Khorana holds a PhD in film studies from the University of Adelaide. Her doctoral project involved a holistic study of diasporic cinema, as well as a manifestation of the same in the making of a documentary about Indian migrants. Her current research looks at cross-platform refugee narratives, diversity in film and television, as well as food in inter-cultural contexts.

With Prof Kate Darian-Smith and Prof Sue Turnbull, Sukhmani holds an ARC Linkage grant that is examining migration and television in Australia.

Sukhmani's teaching expertise spans global media, digital media, urban studies and intersectional cultural studies.

Research Areas

Research Overview

Sukhmani is the author of a new monograph on food and cosmopolitanism, published by Rowman and Littlefield International:
https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/the_tastes_and_politics_of_intercultural_food_in_australia/3-156-afaf4989-4e02-4bcf-97a3-5d281f00f131

Research Keywords: Diaspora Theory and Practice, Transnational Film, Television News, Community and Ethnic Media, Food Media, Food Politics, Politics of Empathy, Refugee Media, Urban Conviviality, Cosmopolitanism

Geographic Focus

Asia-Pacific Continent
Australia Country

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Diverse Australians on television: from nostalgic whiteness to aspirational multiculturalism Published In Media International Australia
2020	Introduction: inclusion, exclusion and Australian television, past and present Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2018	The problem with Apu: why we need better portrayals of people of colour on television Published In The Conversation
2017	“Now I Fight for Belonging”: A Cosmopolitan Refugee Meets Regional Australia in Constance on the Edge Published In Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
2016	Anti-rape media campaigns: A transnational perspective Published In Communication and the Public
2015	"Peepli Live" and "No One Killed Jessica": Remediating the “Bollywoodization” of Indian TV News Published In Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Project
2015	Self-distribution and Mary meets Mohammad: towards ethical witnessing Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2015	Transnational teaching and research in Australia in the'Asian century': a narrative-based case study Published In Social Alternatives
2015	Voicing demands: feminist activism in transnational contexts Published In Australian Feminist Studies
2014	Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony: An Indian Case Study Published In South Asia: journal of South Asian studies
2014	From 'de-wogged' migrants to 'rabble rousers': mapping the Indian diaspora in Australia Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2014	Public spheres and the media in India Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2014	The political is populist: talk shows, political debates, and the middle-class public sphere in India Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2013	Creative praxis and cross-cultural research Published In New Scholar
2013	Gender mores on Indian TV: The 'respectable' middle class and NDTV's the big fight Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2013	On being an âethnic killjoyâ in the Asian Century Published In The Conversation
2013	On being an ‘ethnic killjoy’ in the Asian Century Published In The Conversation
2012	Culture shock: mending Australiaâs fractured relationship withÂ India Published In The Conversation
2012	Culture shock: mending Australia’s fractured relationship with India Published In The Conversation
2012	English-language news television and the great Indian middle class: made for each other? Published In Studies in South Asian Film and Media
2012	English-language television news and the great Indian middle class: made for each other? Published In Studies in South Asian Film and Media
2012	Film festivals and beyond: activist discourses in the reception of Samson and Delilah and The Tall Man Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2012	Orientalising the emerging media capitals: the age on Indian TV's 'hysteria' Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2012	The female journalist in Bollywood: middle-class career woman or problematic national heroine? Published In Metro
2011	Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world: globalized Indian cultures in Yash Raj Films Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2011	Produced globally, designed locally: cosmopolitanism in contemporary cinema Published In Metro
2010	'Water': diasporic cinema and the transcendence of genre Published In Screen Education
2009	Diasporic dispersals and convergences the creative trajectories of a phd project Published In Transnational Literature
2009	Maps and movies: talking with Deepa Mehta Published In Bright Lights Film Journal
2007	Photography, cinema and time in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Gail Jones’ Sixty Lights Published In Outskirts: feminisms along the edge

Book

Year	Title
2018	The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia Publisher UK

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Conclusion emotions in late modernity Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher NewYork
2019	Introduction Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher New York
2019	Screening the refugee: Freedom Stories and the performance of empathy in an ‘emotional community' Published In Emotions in Late Modernity Publisher Oxon, United Kingdom
2018	Balancing the Quotidian and the Political: Beyond Empathy in Australian Multi-platform Refugee Narratives Published In The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary Publisher Germany
2017	'MasterChef' and Everyday Australia: Reception Amongst First- and Second-Generation Migrants' Published In Minorities and Media: Producers, Industries, Audiences
2011	Locations: The situated influences of Deepa Mehtaâs film trilogy Published In Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging
2011	Locations: The situated influences of Deepa Mehta’s film trilogy Published In Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2012	Anti-corruption movements and the 'twittering classes' in the postcolony: an Indian case study Published In ANZCA 2012 Adelaide: Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21st Century
2011	New technologies, Gandhian activism and democracy: re-examining civil society Published In Crises and opportunities: Past, present and future - Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA
2010	Crossover audiences in the aftermath of Slumdog Millionaire Published In Crises and Opportunities: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 5 - 8 July 2010, held at the University of Adelaide, Australia
2009	Diasporic art: writing/visualising back and writing/visualising into being Published In Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference, Brisbane, July 8-10

Editor Of

Book
- Emotions in late modernity. Oxon, United Kingdom. 2019
- Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception. New York. 2013

Investigator On

Year	Title
	Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Potential Supervision Topics

Race, Gender and Intersectionality in the Media

Global Media

The Politics of Food

Affect and Culture

Refugees and Advocacy

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Peace Journalism and Feminism: An analysis of peace and conflict journalism by female journalists In Pakistan and Afghanistan	Hasan, Ayesha
Doctor of Philosophy	Posthumanism As Though Race Mattered: Indian Feminist Responses to Posthumanist Feminism	Mathur, Dipali

Reviewer Of

Australian Humanities Review (Journal)
Communication Research and Practice (Journal)
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Journal)
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources (Journal)
South Asia: journal of South Asian studies (Journal)

Organizer Of Event

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Asian Australian Film Forum and Network Co-convenor
Southern Crossings Co-founder and Co-editor

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Media 2007 - 2010
University of Queensland, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies 2011 - 2012

Teaching Overview

Sukhmani's teaching expertise spans global media, digital media, media ethics, qualitative research methods and intersectional cultural studies.

Research Areas

Research Overview

Sukhmani is the author of a new monograph on food and cosmopolitanism, published by Rowman and Littlefield International:
https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/the_tastes_and_politics_of_intercultural_food_in_australia/3-156-afaf4989-4e02-4bcf-97a3-5d281f00f131

Research Keywords: Diaspora Theory and Practice, Transnational Film, Television News, Community and Ethnic Media, Food Media, Food Politics, Politics of Empathy, Refugee Media, Urban Conviviality, Cosmopolitanism

Geographic Focus

Asia-Pacific Continent
Australia Country

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Diverse Australians on television: from nostalgic whiteness to aspirational multiculturalism Published In Media International Australia
2020	Introduction: inclusion, exclusion and Australian television, past and present Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2018	The problem with Apu: why we need better portrayals of people of colour on television Published In The Conversation
2017	“Now I Fight for Belonging”: A Cosmopolitan Refugee Meets Regional Australia in Constance on the Edge Published In Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
2016	Anti-rape media campaigns: A transnational perspective Published In Communication and the Public
2015	"Peepli Live" and "No One Killed Jessica": Remediating the “Bollywoodization” of Indian TV News Published In Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Project
2015	Self-distribution and Mary meets Mohammad: towards ethical witnessing Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2015	Transnational teaching and research in Australia in the'Asian century': a narrative-based case study Published In Social Alternatives
2015	Voicing demands: feminist activism in transnational contexts Published In Australian Feminist Studies
2014	Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony: An Indian Case Study Published In South Asia: journal of South Asian studies
2014	From 'de-wogged' migrants to 'rabble rousers': mapping the Indian diaspora in Australia Published In Journal of Intercultural Studies
2014	Public spheres and the media in India Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2014	The political is populist: talk shows, political debates, and the middle-class public sphere in India Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2013	Creative praxis and cross-cultural research Published In New Scholar
2013	Gender mores on Indian TV: The 'respectable' middle class and NDTV's the big fight Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2013	On being an âethnic killjoyâ in the Asian Century Published In The Conversation
2013	On being an ‘ethnic killjoy’ in the Asian Century Published In The Conversation
2012	Culture shock: mending Australiaâs fractured relationship withÂ India Published In The Conversation
2012	Culture shock: mending Australia’s fractured relationship with India Published In The Conversation
2012	English-language news television and the great Indian middle class: made for each other? Published In Studies in South Asian Film and Media
2012	English-language television news and the great Indian middle class: made for each other? Published In Studies in South Asian Film and Media
2012	Film festivals and beyond: activist discourses in the reception of Samson and Delilah and The Tall Man Published In Studies in Australasian Cinema
2012	Orientalising the emerging media capitals: the age on Indian TV's 'hysteria' Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources
2012	The female journalist in Bollywood: middle-class career woman or problematic national heroine? Published In Metro
2011	Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world: globalized Indian cultures in Yash Raj Films Published In Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
2011	Produced globally, designed locally: cosmopolitanism in contemporary cinema Published In Metro
2010	'Water': diasporic cinema and the transcendence of genre Published In Screen Education
2009	Diasporic dispersals and convergences the creative trajectories of a phd project Published In Transnational Literature
2009	Maps and movies: talking with Deepa Mehta Published In Bright Lights Film Journal
2007	Photography, cinema and time in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Gail Jones’ Sixty Lights Published In Outskirts: feminisms along the edge

Book

Year	Title
2018	The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia Publisher UK

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Conclusion emotions in late modernity Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher NewYork
2019	Introduction Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher New York
2019	Screening the refugee: Freedom Stories and the performance of empathy in an ‘emotional community' Published In Emotions in Late Modernity Publisher Oxon, United Kingdom
2018	Balancing the Quotidian and the Political: Beyond Empathy in Australian Multi-platform Refugee Narratives Published In The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary Publisher Germany
2017	'MasterChef' and Everyday Australia: Reception Amongst First- and Second-Generation Migrants' Published In Minorities and Media: Producers, Industries, Audiences
2011	Locations: The situated influences of Deepa Mehtaâs film trilogy Published In Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging
2011	Locations: The situated influences of Deepa Mehta’s film trilogy Published In Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search for a New Belonging

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2012	Anti-corruption movements and the 'twittering classes' in the postcolony: an Indian case study Published In ANZCA 2012 Adelaide: Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21st Century
2011	New technologies, Gandhian activism and democracy: re-examining civil society Published In Crises and opportunities: Past, present and future - Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA
2010	Crossover audiences in the aftermath of Slumdog Millionaire Published In Crises and Opportunities: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 5 - 8 July 2010, held at the University of Adelaide, Australia
2009	Diasporic art: writing/visualising back and writing/visualising into being Published In Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference, Brisbane, July 8-10

Editor Of

Book
- Emotions in late modernity. Oxon, United Kingdom. 2019
- Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception. New York. 2013

Investigator On

Year	Title
	Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Potential Supervision Topics

Race, Gender and Intersectionality in the Media

Global Media

The Politics of Food

Affect and Culture

Refugees and Advocacy

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Peace Journalism and Feminism: An analysis of peace and conflict journalism by female journalists In Pakistan and Afghanistan	Hasan, Ayesha
Doctor of Philosophy	Posthumanism As Though Race Mattered: Indian Feminist Responses to Posthumanist Feminism	Mathur, Dipali

Reviewer Of

Australian Humanities Review (Journal)
Communication Research and Practice (Journal)
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Journal)
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources (Journal)
South Asia: journal of South Asian studies (Journal)

Organizer Of Event

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Asian Australian Film Forum and Network Co-convenor
Southern Crossings Co-founder and Co-editor

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Media 2007 - 2010
University of Queensland, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies 2011 - 2012

Teaching Overview

Sukhmani's teaching expertise spans global media, digital media, media ethics, qualitative research methods and intersectional cultural studies.

Overview

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Teaching Overview

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Teaching Overview

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus