Amresh Sinha teaches film at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. He currently
holds two Ph.D.: One from York University (1995), Toronto, and one from New York University
(2015). He has taught Film and Media Studies in various institutions that includes New York
University, The New School, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, College of Staten Island, etc.
He is the co-editor of the anthology, Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Films (2011),
published by Wallflower/Columbia University Press. His articles have appeared in Film and
Philosophy, Film-Philosophy, Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Scope: Online
Journal for Film and Television Studies, Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, Connecticut Review,
and in books, The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film, Subtitles:
On the Foreignness of Films, Lost in the Archive, In Practice: Adorno, Critical Theory and
Cultural Studies, etc., on the subject of memory and mimesis in film and philosophy. He is
currently working on a book, Cinema and Alterity: The Politics of Identity and Friendship in
Global Films and on an essay on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” and Arrival
(2016).