Sarah Joshi

Sarah Joshi is an associate of the Derek Jarman Lab and the Director of the Pittsburgh London Film Programme. Sarah holds a PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies, an MA in Humanities and a BA in Classical Archaeology. After finishing her MA, Sarah taught for a Humanities and Philosophy department at a local college in California. While her MA thesis was on the missionary compulsion to write in the last quarter of the nineteenth century in India, her PhD research with the London Consortium was concerned with contemporary Hindi cinema and the negotiation of interracial relationships and cultural citizenship in diasporic-centric films. Previously Sarah was the manager for the University of London-Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. She has published on the Non-Resident Indian, as well as on representations of the partition of India and Pakistan in popular film and literature.