Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism & Media Studies
Stamford University Bangladesh
E-mail:taniasultana87@stamforduniversity.edu.bd
Education
MSS in Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, 2010.
BSS Honors in Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, 2009.
Areas of Interest
Visual and Cultural Studies
Film Studies
Gender Studies
Migration Studies
Media and Market Analysis
Stamford University Bangladesh, a position she has held since 2014 after joining the university as a Lecturer in 2012. Before transitioning to academia, she worked as a staff reporter for The New Nation, a leading national daily, and served as a Research Coordinator at Beginning Production. Tania was also a Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Film Archive in both 2013 and 2014. She was selected as a Leela Nag Fellow by the Bangladesh Research Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and participated in the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project. In addition, she contributed as a co-researcher to the 2024 report on the status of women in media in South Asia, organized by the South Asia Women’s Network (SWAN).
Tania holds both a BSS (Honors) and an MSS degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Dhaka University, where she earned First Class honors in her MSS and received the Professor Sitara Parveen Scholarship for outstanding performance in her BSS program. She has actively participated in numerous workshops and training programs, covering topics such as SPSS, Data Journalism, Fact Checking, Film Research Techniques, United Body Rights, and Faculty Skill Development under the IQAC.
In 2023, Tania conducted a knowledge-sharing session on Fact Checking for students in her department, jointly funded by Internews and supported by CCD. She also served as a resource person for a Peace Journalism session aimed at reporters working at both national and local media, organized by the Center for Communication Action Bangladesh (C-CAB), a non-governmental organization in 2022.
Tania has published several research articles on film, gender, and media in peer-reviewed journals and presented her work at four international conferences. She has co-authored two research-based books: Evolution of Bangladeshi Film Posters: An Analysis from Art Form to Digital Reproduction and The Watcher's Face, both published by the Bangladesh Film Archive. Additionally, she was affiliated with the Centre for Asian Arts and Culture, where she served as an Assistant Editor in the publication department from 2008 to 2012.