Rutuja Deshmukh

Rutuja Deshmukh (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of English, Michigan State University. She has taught Film and Culture at at Savitribai Phule Pune University and Flame University, Pune. Her research areas include early cinema, history,  popular cinema, popular cultures, and questions of gender and representation at the intersection of neoliberalism. Her work has previously appeared in South Asian Popular Culture (SAPC), Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, The Wire, Fem Asia, and Himal South Asian. She has co-edited the book Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India Cinematic: Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema (Routledge, UK 2023).