Malini Guha

Malini Guha is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, cross-appointed to the Institute for Studies in Art and Culture and affiliated with Migration and Diaspora Studies. She holds the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (2025-2027), focusing on geographical thinking across disciplines.

• Education: B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A. (York University), PhD (University of Warwick)

Research Interests: Guha's work spans cinema and the city, diasporic/postcolonial cinema, public projection art, and ciné-geography. Recent projects include SSHRC-funded research on traction, flight, and becoming in moving images.

Selected Publications: Author of From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema (2015) and co-editor of London as Screen Gateway (2023). Her articles appear in Feminist Media Histories, Routledge Companion to Media and the City, and Canadian Journal of Film Studies.

Scientific Awards:

• Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (2025-2027)
• FASS Mid-Career Research Grant (2021)
• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025)

Collaborative Work: Co-organized Carleton’s Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance (2022-2024), co-taught interdisciplinary course on Race and Representation in the Arts (2023), and collaborates with artist Neven Lochhead on projects like Something Happened (2024).