Education
Computer Science, ICAN Graduate Certificate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
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
Faculty Director, 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
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