Bollywood films are lots of fun, but they also warrant serious scholarship. The following professors specialize in Bollywood cinema and teach related coursework.
University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph Nagy
Professor of humanities
Advisor to the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
DePaul University
Meheli Sen
Assistant professor of cinema and media studies
Florida State University
Amit S. Rai
Associate professor of English
Author of “Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage”
University of Iowa
Corey Creekmur
Associate professor of cinema and comparative literature
University of Minnesota
Jigna Desai
Assistant professor of women’s studies
New School University
Sumita Chakravart
Associate professor of culture and media
New York University
Tejaswini Ganti
Assistant professor of anthropology and culture
Author of “Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema”
Northwestern University
Shalini Shankar
Assistant professor of anthropology and Asian-American studies
University of Southern California
Priya Jaikumar
Associate professor, School of Cinematic Arts
Syracuse University
Tula Goenka
Associate professor of television, radio and film
Wake Forest University
Ananda Mitra
Professor and chair of communications
University of Washington
Sudhir Mahadevan
Assistant professor of film studies and comparative literature
University of Wisconsin
Lakshmi Bharadwaj
Associate professor of sociology
Aswin Punathambekar
Assistant professor of communication studies
Yale University
Ashish Chadha
Professor of anthropology and film
York University (Toronto, Canada)
Elizabeth Pentland
Professor of English
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