Elja Roy

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Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Communication and Film
Institution
University of Memphis (Main)

Education

  • PhD Film and Media

Research Interests

National Communication Association   Film and Media, Environmental Communication   Communication Studies  

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Biography

Elja Roy is an Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Communication and Film. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota in summer 2021. Elja finished her master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Calcutta. Her research brings production-based case studies to explores the intersection of environmental communication and ecocinema. She has conducted field research in the Pacific North-West, Minnesota, Illinois, India, and Bangladesh. Her doctoral dissertation, “Art, Activism and Sundarbans: A case study of Ecomusical Environmental Movement through Film” is half-written and half a documentary film, “Musical Mangrove.” It examines an artistic environmental movement involving multicultural ethnic groups and minorities in the Global South through community-based co-productions. Currently, Elja is working on the postproduction of a documentary film and pre-production of a narrative film. Roy also taught Video Production at the University of Minnesota and Critical Media Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.

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Contact Information

  The University of Memphis 225 Art and Communication Building Memphis, TN 38152

  901.678.3171

Research
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List of Publications (22)
In 2021
22

Pedelty, Mark., *Roy, Elja., (2021), "Media Production as Media Research" Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication Research (Under Review)

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Dirksen, Rebecca., Pedelty, Mark., *Roy, Elja., Pang, Yan., (2021), "Deeply Engaged, Digitally Mediated: Field to Media as an Empirical Methodology" (Accepted)

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS Roy, Elja., "Ecocinema and/as Environmental Communication" at the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Section in the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, IAMCR 2021, in Nairobi, July 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Sundarbans Beyond Borders: Media Production as Media Research" at the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CAM) of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, IAMCR 2021, in Nairobi, July 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Waterlines, Melody Lines, and the Environmental Imagination: Mobilizing Community through Music" at Virtual Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) organized by International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), June, 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Musical Mangrove" - Digital Media Shorts presentation at 52nd Environmental Design Research Association Virtual Conference, Detroit, May 23, 2021

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Roy, Elja., "PhD Futures Now! Podcast" - an invited talk for the Humanities Without Walls Consortium, conducted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 14, 2021

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15

Roy, Elja., "Environmental Justice in Musical Mangrove" - Special Topics in Communication: Environmental Justice Class, Winter 2021," an invited talk at Wayne State University, April 7, 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Art, Activism and Sundarbans: A case study of Musical Environmental Movement through Film" a presentation of doctoral dissertation at Media & the Environment Scholarly Interest Group: Works-in-Progress of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, April 6, 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Collaborating with Graduate Students: Lessons from Humanities Without Walls" an invited talk, hosted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's project Humanities Without Walls, March 25, 2021 (Online).

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12

Roy, Elja., "Geographies & Genealogies of World Cinema" Seminar at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, March 21, 2021 (Online).

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Roy, Elja., "Transnational Environmental Movement: A Case Study of Sundarbans" at the 26th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) at Manipal Institute of Communication, India, March 13, 2021 (Online).

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In 2020
10

Roy, Elja., "Environmental Justice Research at the Crossroads: Community-Centered Documentaries of Resistance Against Institutional Apathy" at the National Communication Association Annual Convention. Indianapolis, IN, November 14, 2020 (Online)

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In 2019
9

Pedelty, Mark., Dirksen, Rebecca., Hatfield, Tara., Pang, Yan., *Roy, Elja., (2019), "Field to Media: the Anthropocene", Journal of Popular Music. DOI: Applied Ecomusicology in https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143019000540

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Roy, Elja., "Field to Media: Dwellers of the Forest Arise" at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 4, 2019.

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Roy, Elja., "Ecocinema: A Study of Community Based Video Production in Sundarbans" at the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section in the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, IAMCR 2019, in Madrid, Spain, July 8, 2019.

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Roy, Elja., "Waterlines, Melody Lines, and the Environmental Imagination: Mobilizing Community through Music" at Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18, 2019.

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Pedelty, Mark., Roy, Elja., "Talking Across the Waterline: A Study of Cross-Sector Communication and the Challenge of Resolving Agricultural Conflicts around Water" at Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) organized by International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 19, 2019.

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In 2018
4

Pedelty, Mark., & Roy, Elja., "Watershed: A Playful Music Video about Road Salts and Chloride Pollution." Presented During: Media @ Play Film Festival. National Communication Association Annual Convention. Salt Lake City, UT, November 9, 2018.

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Roy, Elja., "Ecocinema: Practice Beyond Theory". Invited talk in Vulnerability and Justice Beyond the Human: An Interdisciplinary Approach from South Asia panel, Asia Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 27, 2018.

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In 2017
2

Roy, Elja., "Carbon Economy, Policy Making and Climate Change: from Exxon CEO to Secretary of State, did "Lobbying for Lethargy" work?" In Conservative Rhetoric for National Communication Association Annual Convention, Dallas, TX, November 18, 2017.

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* First and second authors are mentioned according to contribution, the rest are mentioned alphabetically.

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