Dr Amee Vora
(Principal)
Qualification: Ph.D in Virtual Brand Community
Experience:
Area of interest/specialization: Advertising, Marketing, Management
Partha Pratim Samanta
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
PGDM
Former Academic Chairperson – ISB&M School of Communication, he teaches Communication Theories, Fiction & Non-Fiction based Documentaries, as well as Contemporary Media Technology. Partha has made Advertisement, Documentary & corporate films for reputed brands and production houses. He has been teaching and conducting Photography, Cinematography, Lighting and TV production (online and offline Editing) workshops at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC), He has been the visiting Faculty at Whistling Woods International (WWI) . He is currently Assistant Professor - Film Branding at DGMCMS.
Rubina Mohammad
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
PGDM
A Distinction holder in MMS from Rizvi Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai University, Prof Rubina Mohammad has 15 years of experience in teaching and coordinating courses in Marketing and Mass Media. In her current role, she spearheads Advertising and Communications department at DGMC, which deals with courses and careers in media.
Prior to working with DGMC in 2019, Rubina has worked with many progressive management institutes and undertaken projects with Advertising Industry, namely FCB Ulka McCann Erickson (India) Private Limited and Alkymia Tech Private Ltd: POP Shot App.
She has also undertaken various training programs for MBA aspirants across Maharashtra.
Apart from the professional undertaking she has been involved in Social Welfare endeavors, wherein she has facilitated people across various age groups working in the field of Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship in rural India.
She has always been driven by an urge to pursue a larger, fulfilling cause, and mentoring young minds seemed a natural progression. Since the past few years, Prof Rubina has mentored Business Management students in the Marketing, Advertising and General Management domains.
Dr. Dilnaz Boga
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor,
MA Program in-charge,
Communication & Journalism,
Dilnaz Boga is a journalist, professor and researcher from Mumbai. She has worked for the Hindustan Times as Chief Copy Editor on the International Desk in Mumbai, as well as a few city-based newspapers, covering issues like health, women's and children's issues, human interest, civic, education and crime. Dilnaz has also covered conflicts in Kashmir, the North-East, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra for several publications. She completed her BA in English and Psychology and her MA in English Literature from Mumbai University. Dilnaz completed her MA in English and Psychology and a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Mumbai. In July 2004, Dilnaz completed her MA in Peace and Conflict Studies with a distinction on her dissertation ‘Cycles of violence: The psychological impact of human rights violations on the children in Kashmir’ from the University of Sydney in Australia. The following year, she shot a documentary in Kashmir on the same subject titled Invisible Kashmir: The other side of Jannat (Heaven), which was screened at film festivals all over the world. Dilnaz went on to study the reportage of Kashmir by local, national and international print media from 1990 to 2010 during her Ph.D. at the department of Development Studies, at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Currently, she teaches communication, mass media and journalism to postgraduate students in Mumbai.
Saurabh Deshpande
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
BAMMC Co-ordinator
Saurabh Deshpande has over 20 years of academic experience in the teaching of language, literature, media and communication to students of undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
An avid reader, an indulgent observer & a silent listener, his interest areas include interpersonal communication, digital communication and visual communication. He has authored, presented and published Research Papers pertaining to political communication, new media communication and social media communication at national and international forums.
He is currently enrolled as a PhD scholar with the University of Mumbai.
Kanchan Luthra
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
BAFTNMP Co-ordinator
Prof. Kanchan is a seasoned faculty with a teaching and counselling experience of 20 years at various academic levels, right from schooling to MBA. Prof. Luthra’s career path began with the Doon School and Counselling at the Doon Youth Centre. As a Senior Manager and Psychological Coach at United world School of Business, she facilitated self-development, provided self-awareness, clarified thinking processes, and helped develop career paths with the help of psychometric tests. This psychological experience has always helped her easily established empathetic connection with her students, helping them enhance and unlock their potential/s.
As a Senior Faculty, Prof. Kanchan has been teaching across streams and courses in Saraf College and DGMC for more than a decade. Her knowledge and expertise has guided students across programs like MAFTNMP, MACJ, Short Term Professional Courses, PGDM, BAFTNMP and BMM/BAMMC. Subjects like Research Methodology, Advertising in Contemporary Society, Media Laws & Media Economics are some of the subjects taught by her, from the long list of her academic ensemble. She has been the Programme- In-Charge of BAFTNMP for the past 5years
As a faculty, her research discourse illustrates a good number of research papers and a book titled “Advertising in Contemporary Society” for the Final year BMM students.
Vidula Deo
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor,
Ex. Associate Creative Director – Advertising
Vidula Deo has been an Advertising professional with 17 years of Advertising, Communication and Marketing industry experience. In this long professional extent, Vidula has carved out a career from herself from being a Copywriter to an Associate Creative Director, and has worked with an ensemble of National and International brands like Fem, Dabur, Orangina, Turkey Tourism, Incredible India and many more.
In her current academic role, Vidula has over 8 years of academic experience and has been associated with Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies for 5 years as an Assistant Professor. As a faculty, her association has also been with eminent institutes like K.C. College, Nagindas Khandwala College, D.G. Ruparel College and School Guru Eduserve. A trained Technical Writer, Prof. Vidula has dispensed academic knowledge related to various Advertising, Mass Media and Film-related subjects to students, right from graduation to post-graduation to the professional proficiency level.
S.Ponselvi
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
A passionate educator, writer and lawyer, Selvi holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication, a Bachelor’s degree in Law (L.L.B), a Master's degree in English Literature, and a Diploma in Gandhian Thought. She is an accredited certificate holder in Creative Writing and a progressive learner in Communication, Copywriting and Visual Storytelling.
She is a decorated B and C certificate holder in National Cadet Corps - Navy wing and had led her battalion as Cadet Captain. She takes pride as the recipient of the honorary APCM 23 Karat Gold medallion awarded to the Best Outgoing Student, during her Bachelor's college period.
Literary Criticism being her forte, she enjoys the interdisciplinary criss-cross of Jurisprudence and Culture Studies, Poetry and Functional English, and Polity and Strategic Communication. Her years of experience as a public welfare professional, and her ethnographic encounters traversing miles of rural India's landscapes accommodates great space for experiential learning in the classroom.
An advocate of lifelong prolific learning, Selvi believes fostering Imaginative Activism is the way forward in co-creating a democratic and dynamic knowledge society.
Subhamitra Adhikari
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
Subhamitra Adhikari is an ardent lover of Literature, Gender and Culture Studies.
Her research interests include Literature of the Oppressed, Cultural Activism, Gender and Caste Discourse and Political Philosophy.
Subhamitra received her B.A, with honors in English Literature from Banaras Hindu University and an M.A in English Literature from Fergusson College, University of Pune. She went on to pursue another Masters in Women’s Studies from the Research Center for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai where she is the recipient of the Chancellor's Gold Medal. She has also done a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching English from English and Foreign Language University (EFLU)– Hyderabad. Currently she is doing her PhD from Research Center for Women’s Studies (RCWS).
She was with prestigious Symbiosis International University as a faculty for 10 yrs. During her tenure she was appointed as a core member of the Management Development Programmes for Symbiosis International University catering and consulting various consulates, embassies and multinational companies. She has also taught in FLAME University,Pune.
Her interdisciplinary training and exposure results in enriched pedagogy and learning outcomes.
Shalu S. Balan
(Faculty)
With More than 10 years of experience in Animation & Broadcast Industry in India, He did his Bachelors in Computer Applications and Masters in Mass Media from Periyar University, Selam Tamil Nadu, along with an International Diploma in Animation and Multimedia from Arena Animation Academy Delhi.
He has trained students of institutes like ZEE learn , Arena Animation and Maya academy of advance cinimatics on various multimedia topics like graphics , 2d-3d animation , VFx and Editing.
He was awarded with "A GRADE CERTIFIED TRAINER" by APTECH Ltd.
Mr.Balan has been sharing his experience and taking academic lectures in various institution accross mumbai.
He worked on various tv animation series, most popular "MOTU PATLU" (for POGO) with Maya Entertainment Ltd studio,Mumbai.
Anchal Jain
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor and Researcher
A self-professed feminist, a passionate teacher and a zealous researcher, Anchal Jain is pursuing her Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Her areas of interest are sociology of religion, gender studies, minority studies, identities and communities. After finishing her Master's in women's studies, she has helped conduct two research projects in Uttar Pradesh and continues to explore areas of further interest.
In her current role as Assistant professor of Media and Mass communication, Anchal believes in bringing the outside world into the classroom and tries to relate complex theoretical problems with contemporary issues and topics more relatable to students. In her brief association with DGMC, she has been involved with ideating and organizing international conferences at DGMC and hopes to make further useful contributions."
