Curriculum Vitae (July 2025)
ZACHARIAH QURESHI
zack.qureshi@uttexas.edu - zakie.qureshi@gmail.com
Zachariah is a PhD Student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas
at Austin whose research interests focus primarily on transnational cinema with a particular
emphasis on Indian cinema.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2029 (Expected),
Radio-Television-Film
M.A. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 2025,
Visual and Performing Arts
B.A. University of Texas at Dallas, 2023, Political Science; minor in
Film Studies
EXPERIENCE:
2019-2021 Staff Writer- Podcast Department, UT Dallas Mercury Newspaper
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“The Death of the National Author: Reconciling Post-Structuralism and Transnationality
Through Satyajit Ray” Research, Art, and Writing Conference, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, March 2025
“Bollywood Stars in Hollywood Films.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Conference, Albuquerque, February 2025
“Dialectics of Reality in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods.” Southern Humanities Council Conference,
Greenville, January 2025
“How Horror Evades Transnational Analysis.” Global Cinema Symposium, University of Texas
at Dallas, Richardson, November 2024
“RRR: Shifting Transnationality in Indian Action Cinema.” Blockbuster Futures Conference,
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2024
ZACHARIAH QURESHI
zack.qureshi@uttexas.edu - zakie.qureshi@gmail.com
Zachariah is a PhD Student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas
at Austin whose research interests focus primarily on transnational cinema with a particular
emphasis on Indian cinema.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2029 (Expected),
Radio-Television-Film
M.A. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 2025,
Visual and Performing Arts
B.A. University of Texas at Dallas, 2023, Political Science; minor in
Film Studies
EXPERIENCE:
2019-2021 Staff Writer- Podcast Department, UT Dallas Mercury Newspaper
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“The Death of the National Author: Reconciling Post-Structuralism and Transnationality
Through Satyajit Ray” Research, Art, and Writing Conference, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, March 2025
“Bollywood Stars in Hollywood Films.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Conference, Albuquerque, February 2025
“Dialectics of Reality in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods.” Southern Humanities Council Conference,
Greenville, January 2025
“How Horror Evades Transnational Analysis.” Global Cinema Symposium, University of Texas
at Dallas, Richardson, November 2024
“RRR: Shifting Transnationality in Indian Action Cinema.” Blockbuster Futures Conference,
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2024
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“Shaitaan: Re-affirming the Value of the National in Transnational Horror.” Horror Studies Now
Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, June 2024
PUBLICATIONS:
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“RRR: Shifting Transnationality in Indian Action Cinema.” The Journal of Popular Culture
(Invited, Forthcoming)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Gore as Art or Commodity in the Bollywood Action Film.” in The Gore Gore Book.
(Forthcoming)
ESSAYS/CRITICISM:
“Hold Up! Time Out!: Non-Black Minorities in the Films of Spike Lee.” ScreenSpeck.com
(November 2024) https://screenspeck.com/2024/11/17/hold-up-time-out-non-black-
minorities-in-the-films-of-spike-lee/
“The Empty Pluralism of ‘Pan-Indian’ Action Films.” ScreenSpeck.com (October 2024)
https://screenspeck.com/2024/10/04/the-empty-pluralism-of-pan-indian-action-films/
CREATIVE WORK:
“ZYNdagi.” video installation in exhibition Psychic Fissures at ARC Gallery, Dallas, TX. (April
2025)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2019 Academic Excellence Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Society for Cinema and Media Studies: Graduate Student Organization, Asian and Pacific
American Caucus, Transnational Cinemas SIG, Horror Studies SIG, Film Philosophy SIG
“Shaitaan: Re-affirming the Value of the National in Transnational Horror.” Horror Studies Now
Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, June 2024
PUBLICATIONS:
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“RRR: Shifting Transnationality in Indian Action Cinema.” The Journal of Popular Culture
(Invited, Forthcoming)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Gore as Art or Commodity in the Bollywood Action Film.” in The Gore Gore Book.
(Forthcoming)
ESSAYS/CRITICISM:
“Hold Up! Time Out!: Non-Black Minorities in the Films of Spike Lee.” ScreenSpeck.com
(November 2024) https://screenspeck.com/2024/11/17/hold-up-time-out-non-black-
minorities-in-the-films-of-spike-lee/
“The Empty Pluralism of ‘Pan-Indian’ Action Films.” ScreenSpeck.com (October 2024)
https://screenspeck.com/2024/10/04/the-empty-pluralism-of-pan-indian-action-films/
CREATIVE WORK:
“ZYNdagi.” video installation in exhibition Psychic Fissures at ARC Gallery, Dallas, TX. (April
2025)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2019 Academic Excellence Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Society for Cinema and Media Studies: Graduate Student Organization, Asian and Pacific
American Caucus, Transnational Cinemas SIG, Horror Studies SIG, Film Philosophy SIG
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