Rini B. Mehta

Author info: Rini B. Mehta is Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature and affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Mehta is Public Voices Fellow and a University of Illinois Alumni OpEd Project Participant. Mehta works on the evolution and synthesis of modernity; nationalism, religious revival, cinema and the post-global nation state. Her book on Indian Cinema, Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood was published by University of Illinois Press in June 2020.