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CURRICULUM VITAE RACHEL DWYER

1 Education School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Part-time, 1990–5) 1995 PhD 'The Gujarati lyrics of Kavi Dayarambhai' Magdalen College, University of Oxford (1984–6) 1986 MPhil General Linguistics and Comparative Philology Major language: Greek (Mycenean, Dialect Inscriptions, Homer) Minor language: Sanskrit Thesis (25,000 words): 'Vedic Studies: a linguistic commentary on hymn XII.I of the Atharvaveda' School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1980–4) 1984 BA (Hons) Sanskrit (Class I) Subsidiary language: Avestan Special subject: Indo-European Philology

2 Employment 2007– Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, SOAS 2004–07 Reader in Indian Studies and Cinema, SOAS 2000–04 Senior Lecturer in Indian Studies, SOAS 1996–2000 Lecturer in Gujarati and Indian Studies, SOAS 1991–96 Lecturer in Gujarati, SOAS 1989–91 Training Fellow in Gujarati, SOAS 1987–89 Curator of Language and Dialect, National Sound Archive, British Library 1987 Computer Programmer, British Airways plc. Finance Division 1986–87 Extra-academic Staff (Vedic and Sanskrit literature), SOAS

3 Research and Publications 1) Books a) Singly authored 2014a ’s : Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India. London and Chicago: Reaktion Books; Picture abhi baaki hai: Bollywood as a guide to modern India New : Hachette 2013 Get started in Gujarati. London: Teach yourself (Revised edition) 2008 What do believe? London: Granta. Translated into Italian, Finnish and other languages 2006a, 2007a Filming the : religion and Indian cinema. London, New York and Delhi: Routledge (Sections reprinted in Brent Plate and Jolyon Mitchell (eds) Religion and film: a reader. London: Routledge: 135- 42 2005 One hundred Bollywood films. London: British Film Institute/Berkeley: University of California Press/New Delhi: Roli Books Rachel Dwyer

2002a . In ‘World directors’ series’. London: British Film Institute/Berkeley: University of California Press/New Delhi: Roli Books 2001 The poetics of devotion: the Gujarati lyrics of Dayaram. London: Curzon 2000a All you want is money, all you need is love: sexuality and romance in modern India. London: Cassell/New York: Continuum 1995 Gujarati. (+ 90min. cassette), in the ‘Teach yourself’ series, London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton Educational b) Co-authored 2002 Cinema India: the visual culture of Hindi film. Co-authored with D. Patel, in the ‘Envisioning Asia’ series, ed. H. Bhabha, London: Reaktion Books and the Victoria and Albert Museum/New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press/Delhi: c) Edited [2019a] Cinema, soft power and geo-political change. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) 2015a Bollywood. (Four Volumes). Routledge Major Works Collection: London: Routledge d) Co-edited [2019b] ‘Bombay before : Essays in honour of Jim Masselos.’ Co- edited with Manjiri Kamat and Prashant Kidambi. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan; London: Hurst; New York: OUP 2015b Key concepts in modern Indian studies. Co-edited with Gita Dharampal-Frick, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach and Jahnavi Phalkey New Delhi: Oxford University Press, India; New York: New York University Press 2011a Beyond the boundaries of Bollywood: the many forms of Hindi cinema. Co-edited with Jerry Pinto. Delhi: Oxford University Press 2000 Pleasure and the nation: the history, consumption and politics of public culture in India. Co-edited with Christopher Pinney. Delhi: Oxford University Press 2) Chapters in books [2020a] ‘A German eye on Hindi cinema.’ In Debashree Mukherjee (ed.) Josef Wirsching’s cinematography and the Bombay Talkies. Delhi: Mapin and the Alkazi Foundation. (Working titles; no further details) [2020b] ‘: Nargis and female stardom in Hindi cinema from 1947 to 1957.’ In Faisal Devji and Mallica Kubera Landrus (eds) The Art of Independence (No further details) [2019c} ‘New myths for an old nation: Bollywood, soft power and Hindu nationalism. In Rachel Dwyer (ed.) Cinema, soft power and geo- political change. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [2019d] ‘Bollywood’s America.’ In Shanay Jhaveri (ed.) Outsider films on America. Mumbai: Shoestring Books (Accepted for publication. No further details) [2019e] ‘Get on the train baby!: Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English accents and language in Express (2013)’ Co-authored with Ashton. In Ranjani Mazumdar and Neepa Majumdar (eds) Blackwell companion to Hindi film. Oxford: Blackwell. (Accepted for publication. No further details)

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[2019f] ‘I do fatafat constipation with goras in tiptop gora English: Hinglish and English accents and language in (2012)’ With Helen Ashton. In Francesca Orsini (ed.) Hinglish. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan (Peer reviewed and accepted. No further details) 2018a ‘Rimjhim ke taraane leke aayi barsaat’: Songs of love and longing in the Bombay rains.’ In Katherine R. Schofield, Imke Rajamani and Margrit Pernau (eds.) Monsoon feelings: a history of emotions in the rain. Delhi: Niyogi Books: 291-314 2017a ‘Afterword.’ In Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin (eds) Music in contemporary Indian film: memory, voice, identity. (Routledge Music and Screen Media). London: Routledge: 192-8 2016a ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema.’ In Sally Faulkner (ed.) Middlebrow cinema. London: Routledge: 51-67 2016b ‘I am crazy about the Lord: the Muslim devotional genre in Hindi film.’ In Ali Nobil Ahmad (ed.) Cinema in Muslim Societies. London: Routledge: 118-129 (Reprint of 2010 article in Third Text) 2015c ‘Innocent abroad: Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar and the diasporic star.’ In Elke Mader, Rajinder Dudrah and Bernhard Fuchs (eds) Shah Rukh Khan and global Bollywood’ New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 49-69 2015d ‘A star is born?: Rishi Kapoor and dynastic charisma in Hindi cinema.’ In Shelley Cobb, and Neil Ewen (eds) First comes love: Power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics. New York: Bloomsbury Academic: 96-115 2015e ‘I love you when you’re angry: , the star and emotion in the Hindi film.’ In Andrea Bandhauer and Michelle Royer (eds) Stars in : screen icons and star systems across cultures. London: IB Tauris: 13-23 2014b ‘The biopic of the new middle classes in Hindi cinema.’ In Belen Vidal and Tom Brown (eds) The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture. In the series, American Film Institute Readers, ed. Edward Brannigan and Charles Wolfe. London and New York: Routledge: 68-83 2013a ‘Bollywood’s empire: Indian cinema and the diaspora.’ In Joya Chatterjee and David Washbook (eds) Routledge handbook of South Asian diaspora. London: Routledge: 407-416 2013b ‘Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending’. In Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (ed.) The topography of happiness from the American dream to postsocialism/ Топография счастья от Американской мечты к пост-социализму. Moscow: 357-402 2013c ‘Le cinéma indien.’ In Christophe Jaffrelot et al. (eds). L'Inde et ses avatars: Pluralité d'une puissance. Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal: 275-306 2013d ‘The Hindi film biopic.’ In Robert Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Historical Film. Oxford: Blackwell: 219-232 2011b ‘Zara hatke!: The new middle classes and the segmentation of Hindi cinema.’In Henrike Donner (ed.) Being middle-class in contemporary India: A way of life. London: Routledge: 184-208

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2011c ‘Bombay Gothic: 60 years of Mahal/The mansion, dir. Kamal Amrohi, 1949’. In Dwyer and Pinto 2011c: 130-155 2010 ‘Hindi films and their audiences’. In Being here, now: some insights into Indian cinema. Guest ed. Shanay Jhaveri. Special volume, of Marg, 61(3), March: 30-39 2009a ‘Bimal Roy: a different kind of Hindi cinema.’ In Rinki Bhattacharya (ed.) Bimal Roy: the man who spoke in pictures. New Delhi: Penguin: 162-171 2009b ‘Ich mag es, wenn du zornig wirst: Amitabh Bachchan, Emotionen und Stars im Hindi-film. (I love you when you’re angry: Amitabh Bachchan, the star and emotion in the Hindi film.)’ In Claus Tieber (ed.). Fokus Bollywood: das indische Kino in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen. Münster: Lit. Verlag: 99-115 2009c ‘Depictions of and by religious practitioners in films: Hinduism.’ in John Lyden (ed.) Routledge companion to religion and film. New York: Routledge: 141-61 2006b ‘Kiss and tell: expressing love in Hindi movies.’ In Francesca Orsini (ed.) Love in South Asia: a cultural history. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 289- 302 2006c ‘Planet Bollywood: Hindi film in the UK.’ In N. Ali, V. Kalra and S. Sayyid (eds) Postcolonial people: South Asians in Britain. C. Hurst & Co: London: 366-75 2006d ‘The saffron screen?: Hindi movies and Hindu nationalism.’ In Birgit Meyer and Annalies Moors (eds) Religion, media and the public sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 273-89. 2004a ‘Yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti! (This wedding cannot happen!)’ In G.W. Jones and Kamalini Ramdas (eds) (Un)tying the knot: ideal and reality in Asian marriage. (Asian Trends, 2) : Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore: 59-90 2004b ‘International Hinduism: the Swaminarayan sect.’ In K.A. Jacobsen and P. Kumar (eds) South Asians in the diaspora: histories and religion traditions. Leiden and Boston: Brill: 180-99 2004c ‘Representing the Muslim: the ‘courtesan film’ in Indian popular cinema.’ In T. Parfitt and Y. Egorova (eds) Mediating the other: representations of Jews, Muslims and Christians in the media. London: Routledge/Curzon, (Jewish Studies Series): 78-92 2002b ‘Landschaft der Liebe: die indischen Mittelschichten, die romantische Liebe und das Konsumdenken.’ (tr. Wolfgang Himmelberg) In Alexandra Schneider (ed.) Bollywood: das indische Kino und die Schweiz. Edition Museum für Gestaltung: Zürich: 97-105 2000b ‘Bombay ishtyle.’ In S. Bruzzi and P. Gibson (eds) Fashion cultures: theories, explorations and analysis. London: Routledge: 178-190 2000c etc ‘Shooting stars: the Indian film magazine Stardust.’ In Dwyer and Pinney: 247-85. Reprinted in Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar (eds) (2008) Mapping Bollywood: Films, Cultures, and Identities in a Global World. New York: New York University Press: 240-67; also reprinted as ‘Gossip and the creation of cinematic space.’In Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik (eds) (2008) Visual sense: a cultural reader. Oxford: Berg.

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1998a ‘ “Starry nights”: the novels of Shobha Dé.’ In Th. D’haen (ed.) (Un)writing empire. In ‘Cross/cultures: readings in the post/colonial literatures in English’ series, Vol 30. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. 117-133 1994 ‘Caste, religion and sect in Gujarat: followers of Vallabhacharya and Swaminarayan.’ In R. Ballard (ed.) Desh pardesh: the South Asian experience in Britain. London: Hurst & Company. 165-190 3) Articles in journals 2017e ‘Calling on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’. In The Muslim World. © Hartford Seminary. Special Issue: Hindu-Muslim Relations, edited by: Lucinda Allen Mosher, Shaunaka Rishi Das. April, 107 ( 2): 256-270 2015g ‘Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings, in Mumbai.’ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and Middle East, Summer 2015 (35:2): 263-276 2013e ‘Fire and Rain, The Tramp and The Trickster: Romance and the family in the early films of Raj Kapoor.’ Special issue of The South Asianist: Journal of South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2 (3). December: 9-32 2013f ‘My Lord, the elephant.’ Seminar, November, 651: 39-42 2013g ‘The biggest star of all: the elephant in Indian cinema.’ In Thomas Dähnhardt and Fabrizio Ferrari. (eds) Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts. Non-Human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual and Folklore. Sheffield: Equinox. Special issue of Religions of South Asia, 7: 195-210 2011d ‘The case of the missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi cinema.’ Public Culture, special issue, edited Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji. 23.2, 349-376 2010g ‘Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to modern India.’ (Based on inaugural lecture, Feb 5, 2008.) Asian Affairs, 41 (3), 381-398 2010g ‘I am crazy about the Lord: the Muslim devotional film.’ Third Text, 24, 1, ‘Special issue: Cinema in Muslim Societies’: 123-34 2002c ‘Real and imagined audiences: and the Hindi film after the 1990s.’ Etnofoor, 15 (1/2) December, Special volume: ‘Screens’:177- 193. Reprinted in Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (with Vera Alexander) (eds) (2006) Peripheral centres, central peripheries: India and its diasporas. Transcultural Anglophone Studies, Vol. 1. LitVerlag: Munster: 223-41 2000d ‘ “Indian values” and the diaspora: Yash Chopra’s films of the 1990s.’ West Coast Line, 32-34/2, Autumn 2000: 6-27; also in Parthiv Shah (ed.) Figures, facts, feelings: a direct diasporic dialogue. New Delhi: Centre for Media and Alternative Communication: 74-82 2000e ‘The erotics of the wet sari in Hindi films.’ South Asia, 23 (2), June: 143-159. Translated into Flemish: ‘De natte sari-sutra: vestimentaire erotiek in de moderne Hindi-film.’ AS: mediatijdschrift, 2005, 170: 26- 43 1998b ‘Hindi romantic cinema: Yash Chopra’s and Silsila.’ South Asia, XX1 (1), June, Special volume: ‘Translatings: images from India’s half century.’: 181-212 4) Encyclopaedia entries and other short pieces

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2018b ‘Jaffrey, Saeed (1929-2015)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2011 ‘Cinema’ in Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (eds) Encyclopaedia of global religion. Los Angeles: Sage Publications: 220-22 2009c ‘Phalke, Dhundiraj Govind [known as Dadasaheb Phalke] (1870- 1944)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96954] 2007b ‘Cinema’ In D. Cush, C. Robinson and M. York (eds) The encyclopaedia of Hinduism. London: RoutledgeCurzon: 245-7 2007c ‘Indian cinema.’ In Pam Cook (ed.) The cinema book. London: British Film Institute: 221-3 2006e ‘The goddess in Indian film.’ In Jackie Menzies (ed.) Goddess: divine energy. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales: 153-5 2007f ‘Awaara’, ‘’, ‘Mughal-e Azam’. In Chris Fujiwara (ed.) Defining moments in movies: the greatest films, stars, scenes, and events that made movie magic. London: Cassell 2003 ‘Mother India’, ‘Deewaar’, ‘Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge’. In Steven Jay Schneider (ed.) 1001 Films to see before you die. London: Cassell 5) Other editing 2008–11 Editor of book series on Indian cinema with Indiana University Press 2006–11 Editor of book series ‘Oxford Series in ’ with Oxford University Press, India 2005– ‘Keywords in South Asian Studies.’ http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/centreinfo.cfm?navid=912. With Subir Sinha 2004d Special issue of South Asia Research 24 (1), May: ‘The cultural meaning of food in South Asia’ 1996 Updated contributions to S. Weightman (ed.) Traveller’s literary companion to the Indian sub-continent. Brighton: In-print 6) Reviews and feature articles about films, books and cultural events Amazon.co.uk, Arre, The Black Film Bulletin, The Book Review, BSOAS, Contemporary South Asia, Gastronomica, , , India International Centre Quarterly, India Today, Indian Express, Indobrit, Journal of Global History, The Little Black Book: Movies, Man’s World, Mid-day (Mumbai), Mint, National Geographic, New Statesman, New York Review of Ideas, Outlook, Sight and Sound, The Sunday Times of India, Tehelka, Time Out (Mumbai), The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement, Vanity Fair; Writing for blogs such as Oxford Bookstore, India and the London Film Festival Programme notes for BAFTA awards; the National Theatre’s ‘Rafta rafta’ (2007); Festival of Indian Cinema, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Indian Embassy, Abu Dhabi, 2008 7) Advisory Board member, Asian Cinema (Intellect Press); Journal for South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge); South Asia Research (Sage Publications); ‘24 frames’, Wallflower Press 8) Anonymous reviewer for many academic journals and university presses in the UK, the USA and India

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4 Significant research grants and awards (not from SOAS) and prizes 2015-8 Co-investigator, AHRC Research Network Grant, ‘Sort power, cinema and the BRICs’ http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/N001761/1 2011 £2740 from the British Academy for research on ‘The Indian biopic’ 2011 Invited speaker, the Karachi Literature Festival, sponsored by the British Council 2008 Funding from the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation and the Indian Embassy in the UAE to organise a conference as part of the Festival of Indian Cinema in the Gulf. 2008 £3000 from The Society for South Asian Studies and The British Institute in Eastern Africa for ‘Bollywood’s India: the view from the other side of the Indian Ocean’ as part of 'Changing global geographies of power and development: contemporary Indian-East Africa relations' 2008 £1500 for research assistance on above project 2004 £3000 from the Society for South Asian Studies for research project in India 2004 £800 from British Academy for travel to ASAA conference 2004 £15,301 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board for sabbatical leave 2003 £14,436 from the Leverhulme Trust for research on Indian cinema 2003 £4,909 from the British Academy for research on Hindi cinema 2002 £2,000 from the Society for South Asian Studies for research project in India 2001 £4,430 from the British Academy for research on Hindi cinema 1997 £19,800 from the Leverhulme Trust for a visiting Fellow from New Delhi, on behalf of Dr R Vasudevan for research on Indian cinema 1997 £1,000 from the Charles Wallace Trust for a visiting Fellow from New Delhi to supplement the Leverhulme grant 1997 £4,995 from the British Academy for research on Yash Chopra 1984 British Academy Major State Studentship 1983 CA Rylands Sanskrit prize

5 Teaching at SOAS 2019 Orientalism on Screen 2018 Introduction to South Asia 2017-8 South Asian Culture 2013- Lectures on the Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia (MA) 2002–3 Basic Sanskrit 2001 MPhil training programme in Comparative Literature (one lecture) 2001– Indian Cinema: history and society; Indian cinema: key themes (MA) 1999– South Asian Literature in English 1998–2000 Indian Cinema: the Hindi-Urdu Cinema (MA) 1995 Selected Texts from Sanskrit Literature 1995–6 African and Asian Religions in Britain (one lecture) 1994– Cinema and Society in South Asia 1994– The Literatures of South Asia (MA)

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1993–4 South Asian English Literature (MA) 1992 Modern Gujarati Texts 1992– South Asian Culture (have convened several times up to 2014) 1991–2002 Gujarati 1 1991 Devotional Hinduism in Northern India 1989–90 Sanskrit Literature (classical) 1986–7 Sanskrit Literature (Vedic and classical)

6 Supervision of research students (completed and currently registered) As first supervisor: 2017– Rakesh Sengupta, ‘An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Early Indian Cinema (1930s-1950s)’ (SOAS Research Studentship) 2014–8 Daniel Luther, ‘Queering normativity: the potential of queer subcultures in transforming social and cultural norms of heteronormative India’ (Faculty Scholar) 2013–14 Charu Smita, ‘Exploring Hindi cinema as a tool for fostering pro-social dialogue in rural India.’ (Self-funded) 2013–7 Georgie Carroll, ‘Towards an eco-aesthetics of Indian poetry.’ (PT; Self-funded) 2012–17 Zebunnisa Hamid, ‘Imaginaries and industries of new emerging Pakistani cinema and television’ (Self-funded) Awarded 2012–16 Helen Ashton, ‘The use of accents in British film about India, and Indian film about Britain.’ (Faculty Scholar, PT) 2012–13 Osanna Samuel, ‘Fairness in Hindi cinema.’ 2011–15 Malgorzata Kruszewska, ‘Sarasvati – Indian goddess of articulation. A textual and fieldwork study.’ 2010–14 Eleanor Halsall, 'German Orientalism, Indian Occidentalism: cinematic collaboration up to 1939' (Faculty Scholar) Awarded 2007–13 Syed Asif Haider, ‘Muslim modernities in Indian cinema’ (Self- funded; part-time) Awarded 2006–07 Sonia Benjamin, ‘Nationalism and cinema’ (Self-funded) 2004–10 Meenu Gaur, ‘Kashmir on Screen: Region, Religion and Secularism in Hindi Cinema’ (Felix scholarship) Awarded 2003–04 Rajinder Dhensa, ‘The embodiment of fashion and beauty in the second generation, British born Sikh female diaspora: the location of a transcultural gendered identity’ (Self-funded) 2001-02 Neelu Sharma, ‘Radio broadcasting among British South Asians’ (Self-funded) 1999-2004 Urvi Mukhopadhyay, ‘The Perception of the "Medieval" in Indian Popular Films: 1920s-1960s’ (Jointly supervised with Daud Ali, History) (Felix scholarship) Awarded 1999-2000 Shagufta Yaqub, ‘Muslims in Indian cinema’ (Self-funded) 1998-2002 Anna Morcom, ‘Hindi film songs and the cinema’ (Jointly supervised with Richard Widdess, Ethnomusicology) (AHRB) Awarded 1997-8 Rajinder Dadry, ‘Images of land in Punjabi cinema’ (Self-funded) 1996-8 Steve Neumann, ‘Gujarati theatre in London’ (Jointly supervised with Kevin Latham, Anthropology) (Self-funded) As second or third supervisor 2018– Kanu Priya Dhingra, ‘Popular Hindi book history of 1950s’

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2016– Sandra Sattler, ‘Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Indian (Temple) Art’ 2016– Avni Chag, ‘Strategies of Sectarian Institutionalisation and Survival: Textual Antiquation and Redaction in the Svāminārāyaṇa Sampradāya’ 2016– Xiaoke Ren, ‘Hindi progressive writers of the 1950s' and '60s’ 2015–8 Adrian Plau, ‘The Deeds of Sita: A Critical Edition and Literary Contextual Analysis of the 'Sitacharit' of Ramchand Balak’ 2014–8 Guanchen Lai, ‘Speaking from/on the village: modes of writing the village in contemporary Hindi fiction’ 2014–8 Aakriti Mandhwani, ‘Everyday Reading: popular magazines and book publishing in post-Independence India’ 2014– Jaya Madhwani, ‘Representation of London in Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali's novels’ 2014 Shaival Thakkar, ‘Representation of urban poverty in postcolonial Indian English fiction; 2014–5 Riya Agnihotri, ‘Shame, Sexuality and Silence: Sikh ‘Herstories’ on the British Asian Stage. A study in to the overarching feminist commitment of British Sikh Playwrights’ (PT) 2013– Poonakulaly Gunaseelan, ‘Breaking taboos: representations of sexual violence in contemporary Indian-English literature’ 2013–4 Maddalena Italia, ‘The erotic untranslatable: the modern reception of Sanskrit love poetry in the West and in India’. 2012–7 Chinmay Sharma, ‘Mythic constitution of subjectivity: the Mahabharata narrative in urban theatre in post-Independence India.’ 2011–4 Priyanka Basu, ‘Cockfight in tune: reading nations, communities and performance in the ‘Bengali’ Kobigaan’ 2010–11 Jaspreet Sanghera, ‘Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi literature written by women on Post - Partition Delhi, UP, Punjab and Lahore, 1949 –1959’ 2010–11 Lidia Jolanta Lewandowska-Nayar, ‘Place and role of Narottama Dasa Thakura in the development of Bengali Vaishnavism’ 2010–14 Nazneen Engineer, ‘The life and work of Dastur Jamaspji Minochehrji JamaspAsa’ (Study of Religions) 2010–13 Masum Khan, ‘D. H. Lawrence and the post-Tagore writers of Bengali literature’ (Part-time; joined committee later; MPhil) 2005–9 Aparna Kapadia, ‘Text, power and kingship in medieval Gujarat, c. 1398-1511' (History) 2005–9 Manjita Palit Mukherji, ‘Songs of the body: a study of the representations of the body in the songs of the 1880s-1920s Bengal’ (South Asia) 2005–6 Sutanuka Ghosh, ‘Reading beyond history: women's writing in India 1930-55 relating to Partition’ (South Asia) Supervisor of Visiting Research Students 2009 Sarunas Paunksnis, PhD student Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, ‘Identification of a woman: social critique of Deepa Mehta’ 2009 Rosa Maria Garcia Periago, PhD student, University of Murcia, Spain, ‘Bollywood, Shakespeare and diaspora’ External supervisor 2011–16 Danielle de Feo Giet, ‘Comparative Study of identity in popular film in India and after 1990’, University of Oxford

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Internal examiner for three PhDs at SOAS (Religious Studies; Comparative Literature). For external examinations see section 9.

7 Administration at SOAS 2013–6 HR Committee 2013– Research Tutor, Department of South Asia 2013–17 Faculty Research Committee 2011–12 Research Ethics Committee 2010–11 Convenor/Chair of several events in the Centre of South Asian Studies 2011 Member of Appellate Committee 2010–12 Member of Employability Working Group 2010–12 Research Tutor, Department of South Asia 2010–12 Member of School Promotions Committee 2010–12 Member, Faculty Research Committee 2010 Convenor, MA South Asian Area Studies 2009–12 Felix Scholarships Selection Group 2009–12 Member, External Relations Committee 2009–10 Member, Honorary Degree Committee 2009–10 Member, Academic Board 2009–10 Member, Faculty Board 2009–12 Webrep, Department of South Asia 2009–10 Head, Department of South Asia 2007–09 Member, Faculty Promotions Committee 2007–08 Member, Resources & Planning Committee 2007–12 Coordinator, Centre for Asian and African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2006–07 Member, Finance and General Purposes Committee 2005–07 Member, Research Policy Committee 2005–08 Member, Faculty Board 2005–08 Member, Academic Board 2005–06 Admissions Tutor, Department of South Asia 2005-06 Chair, MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia 2005–08 Head, Department of South Asia 2005–08 Department webmaster 2004 Member, Academic Probation Review Panel 2003–04 Chair, MA Area Studies (South Asia) 2002–04 Member, Research Subcommittee for the Faculty of Languages and Cultures 2001–04 Chair, Centre of South Asia 2000 Head, Media Studies (Interim) 1999–2000 Library Committee 1999–2000 Undergraduate Studies Sub-committee 1999 Co-organiser of seminar, SOAS: Film theory and African and Asian cinema 1998–99 Student Welfare Committee 1998–2000 Scholarships Sub-committee 1995–2000 Careers Liaison Officer, Department of South Asia 1995–2000 Academic Director, Language Centre, Gujarati evening course 1994–96 Chair, MA Area Studies (South Asia)

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1994–2000 Undergraduate Tutor, Department of South Asia 1994–99 Chair of the Sub-board of South Asia 1994–2000 Member, Audio-visual Sub-committee 1993–96 Member, Academic Board 1992–4 Convenor of South Asia Centre Seminar

8 Conferences organised 2017 Co-convenor with Manjiri Kamat and Prashant Kidambi: ‘Power, public culture and identity: Towards new histories of Mumbai’, University of Mumbai 2016 Advisor, SOAS Elephant Conference, IISc, Bangalore 2008 Festival of Indian cinema in the Gulf. Sponsored by the Indian Embassy, Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage At SOAS 2010 Symposium, ‘Indian Cinema Studies: Bollywood and Beyond’ co- organised with the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London and India Media Centre, University of Westminster in association with the Screen Studies Group 2009 Conference, ‘Indian cinema circuits: diasporas, peripheries and beyond’. Co-convenor with Rosie Thomas, Atticus Narain and Ranita Chatterjee. Organized by SOAS and the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster 2004 Gujarat Studies Day. ‘Engagements with tradition in the Gujarati world.’ Co-convenor with Samira Sheikh 2003 Workshop, ‘Paradise in South Asia’ 2003 Workshop, ‘Food and emotion in South Asian literature’. Co-convenor with Lalita du Perron 2003 Workshop, ‘Literature and the South Asian Communities of East Africa’. Co-convenor with Stephanie Jones 2002 Workshop, ‘The culture of food in South Asia’ 1995 Conference, ‘The consumption of public culture in India’. Co- convenor with Christopher Pinney. Edited papers published as Dwyer and Pinney

9 Academic external activities I have written many tenure reviews (confidential) in the USA, Australia UAE, etc. 2017 Referee for professorial promotion at University of Auckland 2015 Distinguished Visiting Speaker, New Zealand India Research Institute 2015 External Examiner, School of Art, Media and American Studies, University of East Anglia 2015 Speaker at Indian Film Festival at The Hague. 2014 South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal 2014 Nominator for 2015 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy 2014 Advisor to Prince Claus Prize

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2013 Referee for professorial promotions at University of East London, King’s College London, and University of Westminster 2013 External advisor for promotions at University of New South Wales, and the Australian National University 2013 PhD Examiner, School of English, University of Leeds 2013 2013 India- Association Lecturer, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto 2013 Visiting Professor of South Asian Culture, University of St Gallen, Switzerland 2012 King’s Key Scholars Lecturer, British Film Institute and King’s College London 2012 PhD Examiner, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) 2011 PhD Examiner, Department of English, University of Copenhagen 2011 Member of appointments committee, Professor of South Asian Studies, University of St Gallen, Switzerland 2010 Advisor to AHRC on the RCUK Office, India 2009– Member of International Advisory Board, Centre for Indian Media Centre, University of Westminster 2009 Visiting Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla 2008–12 Intercollegiate examiner, MA Film Studies, King’s College London 2008–2011 Member of International Advisory Board, Leverhulme project, ‘Dynamics of world cinema: transnational channels of global film distribution (PI Prof Dina Iordanova) 2008 Delegate, opening of RCUK Office, India 2007 PhD Examiner, School of English, University of Kent 2007 PhD Examiner, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris 2007 PhD Examiner, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster 2006 Independent assessor for AHRC Research Grants 2006 Senior Consultant, AHRC Review into Research in Modern Languages 2006– Member of the External Advisory Board for The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University 2005 PhD examiner, Program in Asian Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne 2005–8 Member of sub-panel, 49 Asian Studies for HEFCE’s national Research Assessment Exercise 2004 PhD examiner for English Department, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 2003 Nominator for Fukuoka Prize

10 Invited lectures and seminars (academic) [2018 Exeter University; University of Bologna) 2018 Keynote Lecture at conference ‘Entertainment, politics and culture: Perspectives on a historical relationship’, History Lab, Institute of Historical Research, London, ‘The elephant in the room: addressing the political in Hindi cinema (Bollywood)’, 2018 Keynote Lecture at conference, ‘Representation in Bollywood cinema’, Birmingham City University: ‘Tiger zinda hai: Middle-age and the Bollywood male star’

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2017 Paper at conference, ‘Coming to terms with the sacred in popular culture’, Brown University: ‘Bhagwan se baat kare ka communication system ye gola ka ... total lul ho chuka hai (This planet's communication system for talking to God is totally useless): Coming to Terms with the Sacred in Indian Cinema’ 2017 Lecture at Harvard University: ‘Bhagwan se baat kare ka communication system ye gola ka ... total lul ho chuka hai (This planet's communication system for talking to God is totally useless): Coming to Terms with the Sacred in Indian Cinema’ 2017 Paper at conference, ‘ Cinema, soft power and geo-political change’, University of Leeds: ‘New myths for an old nation: Bollywood, soft power and Hindu nationalism’ 2017 Keynote Lecture at conference, ‘Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema: Music and Spectacle’: ‘My name is Anthony Gonsalves: Imagining Goans in Hindi cinema’, Royal Holloway, University of London 2017 Annual Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee 2017 Paper at conference, ‘Images of Asia in Portuguese cinema’, University of Lisbon: ‘My name is Anthony Gonsalves: Imagining Goans in Hindi cinema’ 2017 Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, Department of Humanities, IIT Delhi 2017 Lecture, ‘Indian Cinema and its changing roles in a globalized world’, St. Xavier’s College, Economics-Literature Festival, Mumbai 2017 Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, Department of Humanities, IIT Guwahati 2016 Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, Department of Social Sciences, PUC, Belo Horizonte 2016 Paper at Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Sao Paulo: ‘Bollywood’s new avatar: Hindi cinema and India’s soft power.’ 2016 Paper At Screen Studies Conference, 2016, University of Glasgow: ‘Bollywood’s new avatar: Hindi cinema and India’s soft power.’ 2016 Lecture ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema’, Jadavpur University, 2015 Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, University of New South Wales. Sydney 2015 Lecture ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema’, University of Waikato, Hamilton 2015 Lecture, ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)’, University of Victoria, Wellington 2015 Paper at 21st Biennial New Zealand Asian Studies Society Conference: ‘Imagining the inner life of the Asian elephant in India’ (2015 Invitations also to the University of Warwick, Harvard University)

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2015 Paper at conference, India as an emerging country, University of Louvain: ‘Bollywood’s new avatar: cinema and soft power’ 2015 Paper at conference, Monsoon Feelings, Max Planck Institute, Berlin: ‘Rimjhim ke taraane leke aayi barsaat: Songs of love and longing in the Bombay rains’ 2015 Paper, with Helen Ashton, at conference Hinglish: social and cultural dimensions of Hindi-Engish bilingualism in contemporary India, SOAS: ‘Get on the train, Baby!: Hinglish and accented English in Chennai Express’ 2015 Lecture, ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema’, Centre of World Cinema, University of Leeds 2015 Keynote speaker, ‘Bollywood’s India’, South Asian Film Seminar, Williams College 2015 Lecture, ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema’, University of St Andrew’s 2014 Lecture, ‘Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings, in Mumbai’, CP Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Studies, Chennai 2014 Lecture, ‘Bollywood’s India’, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 2014 Lecture, ‘Bollywood’s India: how does Hindi cinema imagine modern India?’ School of International Development, University of East Anglia 2014 Keynote speaker at conference, South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion, London College of Fashion: ‘From ’s hair to ’s shirt: The iconic features of the male stars of Hindi cinema’ 2014 Paper, with Helen Ashton, at conference, Hinglish workshop, SARAI, Delhi, ‘ “I do fatafat constipation with goras in tip-top gora English”: Hinglish and English accents and speech in Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Dir. Yash Chopra, 2012)’ 2014 Speaker, ‘Bollywood’s India’, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 2014 Speaker, ‘An introduction to Bollywood’, Ireland India Institute, Dublin 2014 Lecture, ‘Remover of obstacles: Ganesh and the persistence of the mythological genre in Hindi cinema’, Centre for International History, Columbia University 2014 Lecture, ‘Remover of obstacles: the persistence of the mythological genre in Hindi cinema’, South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship, McGill University, Montreal 2014 Presentation on the biopic, Department of Film Studies, King’s College, London (2014) Invitation to speak at conference at University of Copenhagen on Cinema and Censorship. (Clash with Montreal.) (2014) Speaker at conference at SARAI marking 100 years of Indian cinema (cancelled, due to bereavement) 2013 Lecture, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi: The biggest star of all: the elephant in Hindi cinema’

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(2013) Member of Panel of Delegates of the Indian Government on the Culture of the Elephant at Elephant 50:50 (conference cancelled) 2013 Keynote speaker at conference, ‘A star is born: cinematic reflections on stardom and the ‘stardom film’ at King’s College, University of London 2013 Keynote speaker at conference, ‘Communicating soft power: contrasting perspectives from India and China’. The India Media Centre and the China Media Centre of the Communication and Media Research Institute of the University of Westminster 2013 2013 India-Canada Association Lecture, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto: ‘International khiladis (players): Bollywood and the Indian diaspora’ 2013 Lecture series, ‘Bollywood’s India’, University of St Gallen 2013 Speaker at META Literature Festival, St Joseph’s College, Bangalore: ‘Literary adaptation to cinema’ 2013 Seminar, National Centre for the Biological Sciences, Bangalore: ‘The biggest star of all: the elephant in Hindi cinema’ 2013 Paper at conference, ‘The Indian cinema century’, JNU, New Delhi: ‘I love you when you’re angry: Amitabh Bachchan, emotion and the star in the Hindi film.’ 2012 Paper at conference, ‘The Indian phantasm: imagining multiple in India and beyond’, University of Oslo: ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2012 Lectures on Indian cinema for the India Initiative at Brown University, Rhode Island: ‘Islamicate or Islamophobic?: Muslims in Hindi cinema’ and ‘Filming the gods: Hindu religious genres and mythmaking in Hindi cinema’ 2012 Seminar, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge: ‘The biggest star of all: the elephant in Hindi cinema’ 2012 Seminar, Indian Institute, King’s College London: ‘The biggest star of all: the elephant in Hindi cinema’ 2012 Lecture on Raj Kapoor, King’s Key Scholars Series, British Film Institute and King’s College London 2011 Paper at symposium, ‘Making India Visible: Visual Culture and Modern Art in Contemporary India’, Stanford University: ‘The biggest star of all: the elephant in Hindi cinema’ 2011 Lecture, ‘The biopic and the new Hindi cinema’, UCLA 2011 Seminar, ‘The biopic and the new Hindi cinema’, Australian National University 2011 Seminar in series ‘The media in Asia’, ‘The biopic and the new Hindi cinema’, University of Sydney. In association with the South Asia Network 2011 Keynote at conference, ‘What’s New? The Changing Face of Indian Cinema: Contemporary and Historical Contexts’, The India Media Centre, University of Westminster, in association with the London Indian Film Festival: ‘Back with ’ 2011 Paper at symposium, ‘Bollywood and Indian cinema,’ University of Copenhagen, ‘The case of the missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi cinema’ 2011 Paper at conference, ‘The Diasporic Family in Cinema’, Co-hosted by the Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, the Centres for Film

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and Media Studies and for Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, in association with the Screen Studies Group, University of London, and the Ciné Lumière: ‘Innocents abroad: the diaspora in the shaping of the imagined Indian family’ 2011 The Distinguished Ford Lecture, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford, ‘Amitabh Bachchan: emotion and the Hindi film star’, with response by Amitabh Bachchan 2010 Annual lecture of the British Association of South Asian Studies, ‘The case of the missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi cinema’, Royal Asiatic Society, London 2010 Lecture, ‘The singer, not the song’, Alliance française, New Delhi 2010 Panel convenor at conference, Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood, University of Vienna 2010 Discussant at conference, ‘Religion in the making of a region: Perspectives from Gujarat’, Wolfson College, University of Oxford 2010 Lecture, University of Münster, ‘Hindi cinema: Bollywood and beyond’ 2010 Paper at symposium, ‘Indian Cinema Studies: Bollywood and Beyond’ co-organised with University of Westminster: ‘The case of the missing Mahatma: Gandhi and Hindi cinema.’ 2010 Lecture, South Asia seminar, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, ‘Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending’ 2010 ‘Why study Indian cinema?’ Lecture at Brunel University 2009 Speaker at conference on Gandhi, PUKAR and Jnanapravaha, Mumbai, ‘Gandhi and Indian cinema’ 2009 Lecture, Colloquium, Demystifying India, University of Rhode Island, ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2009 Lecture, Brown University, ‘Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending’ 2009 Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2009 Lecture, University of Southampton, ‘Bollywood in East Africa’ 2009 Paper in conference at the Open University: ‘Making Britain: South Asian visions of home and abroad 1870-1950: ‘Re-presenting South Asians’’: ‘Hungarian men, stunt queens and elephant boys: representing ‘Indians’ in Empire films’ 2009 Paper in conference at University of Westminster/South Asian Cinema Foundation: ‘Literature and Indian cinema’: ‘Bombay Gothic: sixty years of Mahal’ 2009 Paper in conference at Tsaritsyno Estate Museum, Moscow: ‘The Topography of Happiness: New Rituals and Economies of Enjoyment after Utopia’: ‘Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending’ 2009 Seminar at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla: ‘Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending’ 2009 Paper in conference at SOAS/University of Westminster, ‘Indian cinema circuits: diasporas, peripheries and beyond’: ‘Bollywood in East Africa’ 2009 Lecture, University of Vienna, ‘Bombay Gothic: sixty years of Mahal’ 2009 Panel discussant at FICCI/Frames, Panel: ‘The legacy of Satyajit Ray’ 2009 Paper at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai in series ‘Iconic Images’: ‘Bombay Gothic: sixty years of Mahal’

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2009 Keynote address at ‘Diverse Harmonies: Literary and Cultural Confluences’, Biennial Conference of Comparative Literature of India Association [CLAI], University of Hyderabad 2008 Paper in conference at the British Academy, ‘Bollywood in East Africa: preliminary findings’ 2008 Paper in conference at the Festival of Indian Cinema, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Indian Embassy, Abu Dhabi, ‘Bombay Gothic: sixty years of Mahal’ 2008 Paper in conference ‘Leisure in Africa: colonial and post-colonial transformations’, British Institute in Eastern Africa: ‘Bollywood and East Africa’ 2008 Paper in conference ‘Indian cinema’, University of Westminster: ‘Bollywood’s imaginaries: religion, diaspora and modern India’ 2008 Lecture ‘Sant Tukaram: the devotional life of an Indian medieval saint’, Guardini Stiftung/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2008 Lecture ‘Sant Tukaram: the devotional life of an Indian medieval saint’, The Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge 2008 Lecture to inaugurate series at the Indian Embassy, Abu Dhabi, ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2007 Lecture in series ‘Towards independence: from Zafar to Gandhi’, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2007 Lecture at Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester: ‘Bombay cinema and the new middle classes’ 2007 Lecture at Boston University: ‘Yeh shaadi nahi ho sakti/This wedding cannot happen!: marriage and romance in Hindi cinema’ 2007 Lecture at Harvard University: ‘Bollywood’s India’ 2007 Lecture at Wellesley College: ‘Bollywood for beginners’ 2007 Lecture in Commonwealth History Seminar, University of Oxford: ‘Bollywood’s India: history’ 2007 Paper in series ‘India 60 celebrations’, The Nehru Centre, Indian High Commission: ‘Themes from the Mahabharata in Hindi films’ 2007 Paper in conference, ‘Exploring the 'Middle Classes in South Asia, University of Sussex: ‘Zara hatke! : the new middle classes and the segmentation of Indian cinema’ 2007 Participant in Summer School, paper and discussion: ‘Inde: la surprenante modernité’, University of Montreal: ‘Les nouvelles classes moyennes, la jeunesse, la romance et le sexe dans l’Inde moderne’ 2007 Lecture in series, ‘New India’, Temple University: ‘Religion and India cinema’ 2007 Lecture in series, South Asia FOCUS Year Lecture Series 2006-07: ‘Living Hindu Myths: Epic Indian Heroes in Modern Times’, Bucknell University: ‘Screen goddesses: Shakti, Sati, Naginas and other female deities in Indian cinema’ 2007 Lecture in series on urban history, The New School University, New York: ‘Bombay cinema and the new middle classes’ 2007 Paper in Mahabharata conference, Dept of Religious Studies, SOAS: ‘Themes from the Mahabharata in Hindi films’ 2006 Lecture to post-graduate diploma in Classical and Decorative Arts of India, British Museum: ‘Indian cinema’

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2006 Lecture in series, ‘Goddess’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: ‘Screen Goddesses: the Devi in Indian cinema’ 2006 Lecture, South Asia Seminar Group, University of Technology, Sydney: ‘Filming the gods’ 2006 Participant in ‘Séminaire sur la traduction des textes de sciences humaines’, Centre américain de Sciences Po, Paris 2006 Lecture, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth: ‘Religion and Indian cinema’ 2006 Participant in conference ‘The social and material life of Indian cinema’, the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University: ‘Falling stars and rising producers: charisma and control in the Hindi film world’ 2006 Participant in Screen Studies Symposium on ‘Storytelling in world cinema’: ‘Religious narratives in Indian cinema’ 2005-6 Four lectures/booklaunches of ‘100 Bollywood films’ in India for the British Council (Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai) 2005 Lecture, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s Visiting Scholars Programme: ‘Globalising Bollywood’ 2005 Lecture to post-graduate diploma in Classical and Decorative Arts of India, British Museum: ‘Indian cinema’ 2005 Speaker, ‘Brand Bollywood’, FICCI-Frames 2005, Mumbai 2005 Panel discussion, PUKAR Winter Institute: ‘Language and cinema in Mumbai’ 2004 Lecture, The Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi: ‘Hindi cinema and the Indian diaspora’ 2004 Participant in conference ‘(Un)tying the knot: tradition and change in Asian marriage’, The Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore: ‘Yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti!(This wedding cannot happen!)’ 2004 Keynote speaker at 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia: ‘Religion and the ‘social’ Hindi film’ 2004 Seminar, Art Gallery of New South Wales: ‘Romance and marriage in the Hindi film’ 2004 Krishna Somers Foundation Lecture, Murdoch University, Perth: ‘Bollywood cinema’ 2004 Speaker at Open Doek (Belgium International Film Festival), organized by the Vlaamse Dienst voor Filmcultuur: ‘Classic Bollywood’ 2004 Seminar, Dept of Sociology, Wellesley College: ‘Filming the gods’ 2004 Seminar, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: ‘The Hindi film and the diaspora’ 2004 Seminar, Dept of Sanskrit, Harvard University: ‘Filming the gods: secularism and Indian cinema’ 2004 Seminar in Religious Studies Research Seminar, University of Lancaster: ‘Filming the gods’ 2004 Discussant, Graduate Student Symposium, University of Chicago 2004 Seminar, Southern Asia Institute, Columbia University: ‘Religion and Indian cinema’ 2004 Seminar, Dept of Material Culture, University College, London: ‘Kismet: religion and melodrama in the ‘secular’ Hindi film’

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2004 Seminar in series South Asia Research Seminars ‘Globalisation, Ethnicity and Culture’, University of Sussex: ‘Filming the gods’ 2003 Seminar in series ‘Genres in world Cinema’, University of Leeds: ‘Genre in Indian cinema’ 2003 Seminar at PUKAR, Mumbai: ‘Filming the gods’ 2003 Seminar, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago: ‘Filming the gods’ 2003 Participant in conference, ‘Exporting, Translating and Recreating Performance’, SOAS/UCL: ‘Religion in Indian cinema’: ‘Filming the gods’ 2003 Keynote speaker at 28th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, University of Oxford: ‘Religion in Hindi cinema’ 2003 Seminar at School of English and Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London: ‘Hindu nationalism and Hindi cinema’ 2002 Lecture to post-graduate diploma in Asian Art-history, British Museum: ‘Indian cinema’ 2002 Seminar in Department of English, University of Warwick: ‘Views of the Taj Mahal’ 2002 Participant in South Asia Film Festival, University of Virginia: ‘Devdas’ 2002 Paper presented in workshop series: Gender and Rapid Economic Growth in Contemporary East, Southeast, and South Asia, University of Iowa: ‘Yeh dil maange more! (This heart wants more!): Hindi cinema and consumerism in the 1990s’ 2002 Seminar, Departments of History and Film Studies, University of Syracuse: ‘The new historical in Hindi cinema’ 2002 Seminar, Department of Film Studies, Montclair University: ‘Kiss and tell: declaring love in the Hindi movie’ 2002 Seminar, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University: ‘Hindu nationalism and Hindi cinema’ 2002 Seminar, Department of History, Harvard University: ‘Hindu nationalism and Hindi cinema’ 2002 Participant in conference ‘Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries: Anglophone India and its Diaspora(s)’, Saarland University: ‘Shifting genres in Hindi cinema’; panelist in summary: ‘Transcultural Perspectives on Centres and Peripheries’ 2002 Participant in ‘Conference on World cinema’, the University of Leeds: ‘New nationalism in Hindi cinema’ 2002 Participant in colloquium ‘Travel and anthropology’, University of Nottingham: ‘Views of the Taj Mahal’ 2002 Seminar, AHRB Centre for Literature, SOAS/UCL: ‘Kiss and tell: declaring love in the Hindi movie’ 2001 Participant in ‘Religion, Media and the Public Sphere’, the Institute for the Study of in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Research Centre Religion and Society (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam): ‘The saffron screen?: the Hindi film industry and Hindutva’ 2001 Seminar at the Institute for Ismaili Studies, London: ‘Hindu nationalism and the Hindi film industry’

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2001 Participant in workshop ‘Love in South Asian Traditions’, University of Cambridge: ‘‘Angrezii men kahte hain ke ‘Aay lav yuu’…: The kiss in the Hindi film’ 2001 Participant in conference ‘Star Appeal: Beyond the Hollywood Firmament’, University of Warwick: ‘Star of India: Amitabh Bachchan and Hindi cinema’ 2001 Lecture in the media series at the Research Centre for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam: ‘The star in Hindi cinema: Amitabh Bachchan’ 2000 Seminar at the Indisk Filmfestival, Stavanger, Norway: ‘New romantics and old romantics’ 2000 Lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London: ‘Romance– action–romance’ 2000 Participant on panel ‘Negotiatied identities in globalized Hinduism’ at 18th Quinquennial Congress, The International Association for the History of Religions, Durban: ‘Leading British Hindus: the Swaminarayan movement from Gujarat to global’ 2000 Participant on panel ‘Phantasms of the Postcolonial’ at Screen International Conference, University of Glasgow: ‘Romance and erotics in the films of Yash Chopra’ 2000 Participant in ‘South Asian Lifestories’, SOAS: ‘Yash Chopra: a life in films’ 2000 Participant at conference ‘The words to say it: genres, representations and experiences of sexuality in South Asia’ at the University of Cambridge: ‘The wet sari in Hindi cinema’ 2000 Participant at conference ‘Hot zones: Eroticism, Sexuality, & Visual Media in India’, Institute for Women’s Studies, Rutgers University: ‘The erotics of the wet sari in the Hindi film’ 2000 Participant in ‘Mediating the other: Jews, Christians, Muslims and the media’ convened by the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies held at Taba, Egypt: ‘Imagining the other: non-Hindus in Indian popular cinema’ 2000 Participant in conference ‘Production in the popular Hindi film’, University of California at Berkeley: ‘The crew that never (re)tires: Yash Raj Films and Hindi film production’ 2000 Seminar, Centre for South Asia, Columbia University: ‘The erotics of the wet sari in the Hindi film’ 2000 Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University: ‘The erotics of the wet sari in the Hindi film’ 2000 Seminar, Outreach series, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘The romantic Hindi cinema of Yash Chopra’ 2000 Seminar, Centre for South Asia, University of Hull: ‘The erotics of the wet sari in the Hindi film’ 1999 Lecture, South Asian Library Group: ‘Pure at heart: the pleasures of the courtesan film’ 1999 Lecture, British Film Institute: ‘Mother India’ 1999 Seminar, SOAS: ‘Film Theory and Asian and African cinema’ 1999 Lecture, Habitat Centre, New Delhi: ‘The cinema of Yash Chopra’ 1998 Seminar, University of Jadavpur, Calcutta: ‘Indian romantic cinema’

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1998 Participant in conference ‘Shangar and Shringar’, University of Bombay: ‘Indian romantic cinema’ 1998 Lecture, British Film Institute: ‘Indian romantic cinema’ 1998 Participant in ‘Bollywood (un)limited: global responses to Indian cinema’, University of Iowa: ‘ and Indian summer: the romantic cinema of Yash Chopra and the diaspora’ 1998 Seminar, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago: ‘Indian film magazines’ 1997 Seminar, Anthropology Dept, SOAS: ‘Romantic Indian cinema’ 1997 Participant in ‘Translatings’, University of New South Wales, Sydney: ‘The Hindi romantic cinema of Yash Chopra’ 1994 Lecture, British Museum: ‘The Swaminarayan sect’ 1994 Participant in conference ‘(Un)writing Empire’, University of Leiden:‘ Starry nights: the novels of Shobha Dé’ 1993 Participant in BASAS Conference, University of Cambridge 1991 Participant in conference ‘Fifth international conference on devotional literature in new Indo-Aryan languages’, EFEO, Paris

11 Other external activities I write a monthly column, ‘The Rachel Papers’ for the Indian magazine (print and online), ‘Open’. I regularly give interviews for national and local print media, television (mostly Channel 4 and BBC World) and radio (mostly Radio 3 and Radio 4) in the UK, in Europe and in India on Indian cinema and other topics for documentaries and news programmes. I also contribute op-eds, reviews, and other features and give interviews to publications such as ‘The Economist’ and ‘The Financial Times’ and many Indian newspapers and magazines. 2018 Speaker, British Museum, 2018 Invited speaker, Litro Festival, curated by Jaipur Literary Festival 2017 Delivered the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Government of West Bengal 2017 Invited speaker, Jaipur Literary Festival (Jaipur and London); Apeejay Literary Festival, Kolkata; Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai 2016 Delegate, ‘Film Bazaar’, National Film Development Corporation of India 2016 Invited speaker:’ Sex in South Asia’, In partnership with DSC Prize Southbank 2016 Invited speaker, Jaipur Literary Festival at the Southbank 2016 Invited speaker, Interview with Chetan Bhagat, London Asian Film Festival 2016 Invited speaker, Interview with Kanade, London Indian Film Festival 2015 Invited speaker, ‘Undressing Shahrukh Khan’, Bradford Literary Festival 2015 Speaker (with Ian Jack and Sunil Khilnani), National Theatre, ‘In context: Behind the beautiful forevers’. 2015 Invited speaker, Jaipur Literary Festival at the Southbank 2014 Invited speaker, Jaipur Literary Festival at the Southbank 2014 Invited speaker, ‘Pakistan: What else you need to know’, curated by Kamila Shamsie at the Southbank

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2014 Speaker at Lahore Literary Festival: in conversation with Mira Nair and Mohsin Hamid, ‘Filming The reluctant fundamentalist’; in conversation with Naman Ahuja on ‘The body in South Asian Art’; in conversation with Mira Hashmi ‘The rise and fall of masala films’ 2013 Invited speaker, Times Literary Carnival, Mumbai. ‘The flawed heroine: Meena Kumari’, discussion with Mahmood Farooqui and Vinod Mehta;‘Junking the formula’, discussion with Anand Gandhi and Vikramaditya Motwane. 2013 Speaker, ‘In the eyes of the other’, Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations, The Venice-Delhi seminars 2013, 2013 Speaker at Jaipur Literary Festival: in conversation with poet, activist and scriptwriter, : 'Bollywood and National Narrative'; Chair of discussion on literary adaptation, with Zoe Heller, Tim Supple, Ariel Dorfman, Sebastian Faulks and Vikas Swarup. 2012 Guest of Honour at inauguration of LSE India Week, 2012, organized by the India Society, SPICE 2012 ‘Bollywood now’, Podcast for Financial Times, http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?pid=1390 2011 ‘Flying at Street Level’, Hidden Journeys, Mumbai-Delhi, Royal Geographical Society, http://www.hiddenjourneys.co.uk/Mumbai- Delhi.aspx 2011 Jury member, Hassan Kutty Award for Best Debut Indian Film, International Film Festival of Kerala 2011 Panel chair at ‘Names not Numbers’ organised by Editorial Intelligence, sponsored by the British Council and the Financial Times, Mumbai 2011 Discussant in panel ‘Divided’ in discussion series ‘Continental Shifts’ at the Edinburgh International Festival 2011 Discussant with Meera Syal, SOAS Alumni Event 2011 Speaker, ‘Introduction to Bollywood’, National Film Schools Week 2011 Speaker, ‘Bollywood for Beginners’, the Master’s Bollywood Evening, Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers 2011 Lecture, ‘Bollywood’s India’ at the 2nd Karachi Literary Festival, 2011 2009 Chaired panel at ‘Frame by frame’, organized by Akademi at the Royal Opera House 2009 Chair, ‘Literature of the Cinema’, British Council event at the London Book Fair 2009 Member of Marathi jury, 7th Pune International Film Festival 2008 Member of main jury, Zanzibar International Film Festival 2008 Lecture on Bollywood at Nyali cinema, Mombasa 2008 Discussion with Konkona Sen Sharma on mental health in Indian cinema, Happy Soul Film Festival 2008 Speaker on Bollywood, PWC dinner for former President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam 2007 Consultant, programmes about India for Lion TV/Discovery Atlas India 2007 Consultant, Bollywood documentary produced by Littlebird for BBC2 Storyville ‘Shot in Mumbai’ 2006 Speech, ‘Bollywood at BAFTA’, British Academy of Film and Television

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2006– Member of Advisory Board, Gujarat Studies Association 2005 Interview with chief guest, Anurag Kashyap, ‘Bite the Mango’, International Film Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television 2003 London Film Festival, talk on South Asian diaspora film for Education Department screening 2003– Patron, Tongues on Fire, Asian Women’s Film Festival 2003 Expert witness, Gujarati family structures 2003 Interview with chief guest, , ‘Bite the Mango’, International Film Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television 2003 Interview with Safina Uberoi, ‘My mother India’, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 2002 Judge, BBC Asian Achievement Awards 2002 Expert witness, National Health Service, Daksha Emson report 2002 Book launch, ‘Yash Chopra: 50 years in Indian cinema’ in New Delhi and Bombay. Telecast on national news channels 2002 Interview with Yash Chopra, National Film Theatre, London 2002 Advisory editor on Bollywood supplement, Vanity Fair 2001 Book launch, the Habitat Centre, New Delhi: ‘Pleasure and the nation’ 2001 Participant, convention on the entertainment industry, Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry 2001 Interview, Govind Nihalani, Nehru Centre, High Commission of India, UK 2000 Interview, Mani Ratnam, Nehru Centre, High Commission of India, UK 1999 Judge, BBC Asian Achievement Awards 1999 Interview with chief guest, Amitabh Bachchan, ‘Bite the Mango’, South Asian Film Festival, Bradford 1999 Discussant, ‘Tongues of fire’, Asian Women’s Film Festival 1999 Panelist, ‘Bombay Exposé’, London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, National Film Theatre 1998 Subtitler (from Hindi), ‘’ (three-hour feature film) 1998 Judge, BBC Asian Achievement Awards 1998 Panelist, ‘In honour of Balraj Sahni’, paper read ‘The displaced man’ 1997 Panelist, ‘Bite the Mango’, South Asian Film Festival, Bradford 1995–6 Member of committee and sub-committee on university MA: ‘NILE’ (New International Literatures in English) 1994 Teacher on ERASMUS course, University of Leiden: Post-colonial literatures 1993 Expert witness in immigration proceedings 1993– Moderator, Civil Service Language Testing 1993 Subtitler (from Gujarati), ‘Diamonds’, BBCTV 1992 Consultant to International Distillers on Bombay 1992 Examiner for Gujarati, the Institute of Linguists

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12 Visits to South Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) 1981, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1990-1, 1992-3, 1994-5, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998-9, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005–6, 2006, 2006-7, 2007, 2007–8, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2016-2017, 2018, 2019

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