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Munira Cheema is a Lecturer in Media, Culture and Creative Industries at King's College London's Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, under the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She previously held a Lecturer position in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex before joining King's. Her research focuses on intersections of cultural studies, media, and politics in South Asian contexts, particularly Pakistan. Current projects examine social media as an alternative public sphere in Pakistan and female political participation through mediated/parliamentary channels.
Dr. Cheema's work critically engages with transnational issues of race/gender in diaspora communities and Western democracies. She authored Women and TV Culture in Pakistan: Gender, Islam and National Identity (2018) and serves on the editorial board of Feminist Encounters journal. Her research explores topics including media citizenship, counter-public spheres, and cultural industries in the Global South.
She contributes to interdisciplinary research initiatives like the Centre for Digital Culture and the KingsCAT social media analysis tool project at King's. Her scholarship bridges theoretical frameworks from cultural studies with empirical analyses of media practices in postcolonial contexts.
