May 2022
Gitanjali is please to share that her new article True Heroes, False Hoaxes, and Nietzsche’s Will to Power: Bludgeoning the Truth of Coronavirus with a Narrative of Perversion; or how the Beaches Were Kept Open in Stephen Spielberg’s Jaws has been published in the volume The Heroine’s Journey: Diverse Narratives in the Post Pandemic produced by the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires. Click here (registration required) to access the article on-line or download as a pdf.
July 2021
Gitanjali presented virtually on The Hero’s Journey as Anti-Narrative: Descent to Dissent on the way up towards Revolution and Resolution in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Disney’s 1950 animated Cinderella at the 6th International Colloquium of Researchers in Design, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires.
February 2021
Gitanjali is pleased to share that her new article The Hero’s Journey as Anti-Narrative: Descent to Dissent on the way up towards Revolution and Resolution in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Disney’s 1950 animated Cinderella has been published in the volume The Heroine’s Journey: Toward a new conceptual weaving of narratives within the infinite internet loom produced by the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires. Click here (registration required) to access the article on-line or download as a pdf.
July 2020
Gitanjali presented virtually on The Black Heroine in the Mirror: crossing the threshold of the specular image, the esoteric journey and the encounter with the annihilating I in Jordan Peele’s Us at the 5th International Colloquium of Researchers in Design, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires.
May 2020
Gitanjali published her second article The Black Heroine in the Mirror: crossing the threshold of the specular image, the esoteric journey and the encounter with the annihilating I in Jordan Peele’s Us on July 28, 2020 in the volume The Heroine’s Path: Narratives, Gender and Diversity produced by the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires. Click here to access the article on-line or download as a pdf.
October 2019
Gitanjali travelled to Moscow, Russia for the CILECT Congress 2019 where she presented her paper The labyrinth within the kingdom: narrative cartography and building the imagined world for developing non-linear interactive internet-based narrative media on writing internet-based viewer-interactive episodic narrative.
July 2019
Gitanjali travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina to present an abridged version of her article Stuck in a Labyrinth (or a Tower) with the Minotaur and trying to get out: Princess Aurora and Imperator Furiosa as the heroes of the Multimyth at the 4th International Colloquium of Researchers in Design which took place at the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires.
May 2019
Gitanjali completed her first article which was published May 15, 2019 in the volume The Heroine’s Journey jointly edited by Columbia College Chicago and The University of Palermo, Buenos Aires. Called Stuck in a Labyrinth (or a Tower) with the Minotaur and trying to get out: Princess Aurora and Imperator Furiosa as the heroes of the Multimyth article explores the hero’s journey for the female protagonist and offers an alternative model of the hero-task called the Multimyth allowing for a more flexible and nuanced application of the hero’s journey to narrative structure. Click here to access the article on-line or download as a pdf.
November 2018
Gitanjali presented her first academic paper at the CILECT (The International Association of Film and Television Schools) Congress, November 2018. Points of View(er)s: the viewer as director/the director as viewer in the binary model of non-sequential storytelling in Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic explores narrative structure this viewer-interactivity in Soderbergh’s internet based episodic series.