Her research interests include early cinema in India and its intersection with other forms of popular culture; the impact of left radicalism on the film cultures of Bombay and Calcutta in the 1940s-1960s; the question of realism in Indian cinema; the cinematic city; and the visual and literary worlds of Bengali modernity. She is currently working on a book manuscript, titled Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Nation, and Modernity in India, which traces how the space of cinema was imagined in films and in public discourse, in relation to the trope of modernity and the emerging category of the nation, in early-to-mid-twentieth century India.