Dr. Nikhila H. teaches in the Department of Film Studies and Visual Communication. Her doctoral work was on women’s writing and communalism, considering the context of Partition. Her research interests are in the fields of Gender Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture Studies. She finds the areas of convergence of language and gender particularly engaging, and much of her research is in this interface and their changing dynamics across times and spaces, looking at print and other forms of media. She has co-edited with Tharakeshwar V.B. an English textbook designed for use in the undergraduate course on Visual Arts. Her recent publications have been in the areas of gender and filmic remake, television advertisements as multimodal translations and paratexts in translation.