Lecture
Thursday, February 26
Workshop
Friday, February 27
Lecture Abstract:
Workshop Abstract:
Biography:
Monika Mehta’s research and teaching interests include new media and film studies; cinema in South Asia; theories of nation-state; feminist studies; postcolonial critique; and globalization and cultural production. She is the author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (University of Texas Press, December 2011; Permanent Black, January 2012). Her articles and chapters examining trans/national film regulation; globalization and cultural production in India; DVD compilations; music awards; cinephilia; and authorship have appeared in journals such as Cultural Dynamics, The Velvet Light Trap, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, South Asian Popular Culture as well as edited collections such as Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity, Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and their Cinema, and Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies. Her co-edited collection, Pop Empires:Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Korea and India (University of Hawaii Press) is forthcoming.
More information please check out Mehta’s website.