Elja Roy Specializes in Media Studies with a focus on Productions and Environmental Communication and how they intersect with artistic movements and social justice. In particular, she looks at ecocinema through production oriented case-studies. Ultimately, her goal is to bring together production-based experience as a field researcher with the broader field of film criticism, especially in terms of environmentally-themed film and film studies, for the sake of making a distinct, experimental, and integral contribution to ecocinema studies,

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • BA: Communicative English, Serampore College, 2011 -
  • MA: Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calcutta, 2013 -
  • Ph.D.: Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 2021 (expected) -

Specialties

  • Environmental Communication
  • Music as Environmental Communication
  • Ecocinema
  • Ethnographic Film Making