Debjani Dutta

The great Indian Earthquake of 12th June 1897 showing seismic area, epicentre and isoseists. Source: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India vol. 29 (1899)
Seismogram of the 1897 earthquake registered at Shide, Isle of Wight. Source: Milne Collection

Doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Debjani Dutta is a doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She received graduate training in Sociology and Film studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is the recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Fellowship (2018-20) and the USC Transpacific Studies Graduate Fellowship (2014-15). Her current research connects the aesthetic and philosophical concerns raised by the movement of the earth to the visual and avisual movements of cinema and media. She places the scientific instrument of the seismograph within the late 19th century landscape of media technologies and colonial infrastructures that transformed sensory and spatio-temporal perception.