Rutuja Deshmukh

Rutuja Deshmukh is currently a visiting faculty of Journalism and Cinema at Flame University, Pune and History of Indian Cinema at Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She also teaches Culture and Communication at Flame University. Her research areas include Early Marathi cinema, 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 , Economic and Political Weekly, The Feminist Review, The Wire, Countercurrents, and Himal South Asian. She is co-editor of the book - Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema. (Routledge, UK)