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Rini Bhattacharya Mehta PhD.

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Contact Information

3080 FLB
M/C 166
Urbana, IL 61801
Assistant Professor

Education

Computer Science, ICAN Graduate Certificate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Religion
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Associate Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Highlighted Publications

Mehta, R. B., & Pandharipande, R. V. (Eds.) (2010). Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora. (Anthem South Asian studies). Anthem Press. https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9781843318897

Mehta, R. B., & Mookerjea-Leonard, D. (Eds.) (2015). The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series; Vol. 93). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769608

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Recent Publications

Mehta, R. B. (2024). Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema. South Asian Review, 45(1-2), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2275085

Mehta, R. B. (2020). Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137973k

Mehta, R. B. (2019). Indian cinema, Indian democracy: An unusual cold war saga, 1947-89. In P. Fu, & M.-F. Yip (Eds.), The Cold War and Asian Cinemas (pp. 194-213). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425202-11

Mehta, R. B. (2018). The Nation-State’s Other: Postcolonial Terrorism in the Indian Context. In P. C. Herman (Ed.), Terrorism and Literature (pp. 110-127). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316987292.007

Mehta, R. B., & Mookerjea-Leonard, D. (2015). Introduction. In R. B. Mehta, & D. Mookerjea-Leonard (Eds.), The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics (pp. 1-8). (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769608-2

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