Sukhmani Khorana

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  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW

Sukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW. Sukhmani has published extensively on migrant media, the politics of empathy and belonging, and self-representation for refugees. She is the author of Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (2023), The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia (2018), and a co-authored book, Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (2025). Sukhmani is currently working on the discourses of race and multiculturalism in the era of information disorder.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate professor, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW
  • 2020–2022
    Senior research fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
  • 2013–2020
    Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, University of Wollongong
  • 2011–2012
    Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Film and Television, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (CCCS) at University of Queensland

Education

  • 2010 
    University of Adelaide, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2016
    Migration, Cultural Diversity and Television: Reflecting Modern Australia
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australia Research Council
  • 2013
    Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora in Australia
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Australia India Council (DFAT)

Research Areas

  • Film, Television And Digital Media (1902)
  • Asian Cultural Studies (200202)
  • Screen And Media Culture (200212)
  • Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies (200209)
  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)

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