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Faculty Profile

Mr. Saket Kumar Arya
Ph.D. (Pursuing), M.A, M.Phil
Assistant Professor (Research)

CONTACT

Email: sarya@gnlu.ac.in

Phone: (+91) - 79-23276611/12

Mobile: (+91) -

Fax: (+91) -

Teaching / Research Experience
  • Submitted PhD on the topic "Cinema and Propaganda: State, Censorship, Public and the Nation in India (1910- 1945)" under Dr Jyoti Atwal's supervision at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
  • Research Assistant, for Kissinger project Vol.2 under Professor Niall Ferguson, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, U.S.A, July 2022 - June 2023.
  • Awarded M.Phil Dissertation on ‘Removing The Lid': Cinema and Propaganda in Colonial India (1910- 1930)under Dr Jyoti Atwal in 2018.
  • Intern At Manuscript Department, Prime Ministers' Museum And Library Society, Delhi, January 2018 - August 2018.
  • Translator And Interpreter, Field Assistant, Kazuya Nakamizo, Kyoto University, Japan, Muzzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, August 2017 - August 2017.
Area of Research/Interest

Areas of General Interest

  • Colonial India
  • Public Sphere
  • Ocular cultures
  • Propaganda
  • Communication
  • Cinema
  • Urban Societies

Current Research Interest

  • Propaganda and Cinema in Colonial India

New Course(s) Designed/Introduced

  • Comparative World History
Conference / Seminar / Workshop

Participation


Workshops

  • ‘Making Bricks without Straw': Educational and Instructional Films in Colonial India, 1910-1940, at Cambridge Cultural History Workshop, 2023.
Visiting Faculty/Guest Lectures/Keynote Address
  • Guest Faculty, AIFT, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh