Ankita Deb is a second year PhD student in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. Her MPhil dissertation from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India was titled Romancing the 1970s: The Couple in Bombay Cinema, where she located speed and sex as critical markers of a new romantic modernity for the on-screen couple. Her current work is primarily centered around Bombay Film and Media studies, with a focus on media archaeology,  infrastructure, waste, phenomenology and body.