Ravi Vasudevan is a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and co-initiator of ‘Sarai’, the centre's research programme on media experience and urban history. He has taught film studies in India and the USA, including at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Princeton University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jadavpur University, the Film and Television Institute of India, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was Van Zelst Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Radio Television Film in 1998. He is on the editorial advisory board of the British film studies journal Screen. His articles have been widely published and anthologized, and he has edited Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000).