Khushboo Bhutani is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies and English at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi. She completed her MPhil in Cinema Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  Her research interests include the study of emergent media infrastructures in distinct geopolitical settings, immersive technologies and their entanglements with media corporations. Prior to this, she has also worked on trauma studies and transnational cinema.