Dr. Rashna Wadia Richards serves as the Associate Provost in the Office of Academic Affairs at 九色. She works on all matters of the academic budget, including faculty salary and equity structure, staffing, and administrative operations. She also oversees the allocation of academic space and renovations, manages post-baccalaureate and summer school programs, and works closely with chairs on their budgetary and staffing needs. And she serves ex officio on the following committees: Technology and Academic Space (TASC), Enrollment Advisory, and Information Services Governance.
Dr. Richards鈥檚 teaching and research interests include American film and television, critical theory, and transnational cultural studies. She has published three books. Her first monograph, (2013), and her co-edited collection, (2017), were published by Indiana University Press. Her third book, (2021), was published by Oxford University Press.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淰isualizing with New Comprehension: Mothering and Autoethnography,鈥 in Mothers of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice, eds. Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer (Forthcoming).
鈥淟ove, Desi Style: Arranged Marriage and Transnational Mobility in Mira Nair鈥檚 The Namesake.鈥 Canadian Journal of Film Studies 26.1 (2017): 64-80.
鈥淚ntroduction: Love and Teaching, Love and Film,鈥 For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and outside the Classroom, eds. Rashna Wadia Richards and David T. Johnson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), 1-23.
鈥淭ranslating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood.鈥 Transnational Film Remakes, eds. Constantine Verevis and Iain Robert Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 118-129.
鈥(Not) Kramer vs. Kumar: The Contemporary Bollywood Remake as Glocal Masala Film.鈥 Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28.4 (2011): 342-352.
鈥淯nsynched: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Luis Bu帽uel鈥檚 L鈥橝ge d鈥橭r.鈥 Film Criticism 33.2 (2008-09): 23-43.
鈥淟oose Ends: The Stuff That Movies Are Made of.鈥 Arizona Quarterly 63.4 (2007): 83-118.
鈥淪how-Stoppers: 1937 and the Chance Encounter with Chiffons.鈥 Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2 (2007): 84-110.
鈥淪o Many Fragments, So Many Beginnings, So Many Pleasures: The Neglected Detail(s) in Film Theory.鈥 Criticism 45.2 (2003): 173-195. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)
Short Essays and Reviews
鈥淭别补肠丑颈苍驳 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.鈥 The Cine-Files 9 (2015).
鈥淣othingness, Spectacle, Cinema.鈥 Film Quarterly 61.4 (2008): 92-93.
Review of Mira Nair鈥檚 The Namesake. Scope 10 (2008).
鈥淩e-Viewing Cinephilia: The Movement and the Moment.鈥 Politics and Culture 1 (2006).
鈥淗umphrey Bogart,鈥 Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 95-96. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)
Review of Thomas Cartelli鈥檚 Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers 24 (2001): 77-79. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)
Education
M.A., English, West Virginia University, 2001
M.A., English, University of Mumbai, India, 1999
B.S., Business, Narsee Monjee College, India, 1997