Senior Fellow

Ravi Vasudevan is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and co-initiated Sarai, the Centre's research programme on media experience and urban history. Vasudevan has taught Film Studies at universities in India and the USA, and held fellowships at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the School of Oriental and African Studies, Princeton and will be Smuts Fellow at Cambridge from 2011. In 2003 he curated the film section of body.city, a programme on contemporary art in India, held at Berlin’s House of World Cultures. He is on the editorial advisory board of Screen and has edited Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000).  His articles on cinema have appeared in a variety of disciplinary journals, and have been anthologized and translated. He is one of the founder editors of the new journal Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, and author of The Melodramatic Public: film form and spectatorship in Indian cinema (Ranikhet, Permanent Black, and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).