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Monika Mehta
Monika Mehta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Binghamton University. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial literature and film; globalization, diaspora, and cultural production; gender and sexuality; cinema in south Asia; the state and the entertainment industry. She is currently completing her book-manuscript, Selections: Cutting, Classifying, and Certifying in Bombay Cinema, which examines censorship of sex in Bombay cinema. She has also begun research on her next project, Disjunct Economies: Libidinal and Material Investments in Bombay Cinema, which explores how processes which go under the name of ‘globalization’ have reconfigured relations among Bombay cinema, the Indian state, and Indian diasporic communities.
Her publications include ‘Reading Cinephilia in Kikar Ha-Halomot/ Desperado Square' (2001), 'Viewing the Local and Transnational’s Sangam/Confluence' (1964), in South Asian Popular Culture, ‘Globalizing Bombay Cinema, Reproducing the Indian State and Family’ in Cultural Dynamics and ‘What is Behind Film Censorship? The Khalnayak Debates’ Gender and Censorship: Debates in Contemporary Indian Feminism.