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Books and Edited Volumes:Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo12120811.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/Conjugations-Marriage-Bollywood-Cinema-Disciplines/dp/0226304264Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen. Co-edited with Rajinder Dudrah, Anustup Basu and Amit Rai. (Routledge, 2012)Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Film Music. Co-edited with Sujata Moorti (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Published in Asia by Orient Blackswan in 2010.  Reviewed in Jump Cut, Journal of Asian Music, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, Global Asian Music, Journal of International Communications, Senses of Cinema, Cultural Dynamics etc http://www.amazon.com/Global-Bollywood-Travels-Hindi-Dance/dp/0816645795/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335204837&sr=1-1 Recent Articles:“Between Media: Rethinking Adaptation in Bengali Cinema.” Comparative Literature, forthcoming, Spring, 2012. (10,855 words)“Singin’ in the Rain: Conjugality and Hindi Film Form.” Feminist Studies, 37.1 (Spring, 2011): 154-180“Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema.” Co-author, Sujata Moorti. Camera Obscura 75, 25:3: 29-67“Sentimental Symptoms: The Films of Karan Johar and Bombay Cinema.” in Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora, Eds. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari Pandharipande (London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2010), 15-34. “Introduction.” Co-author, Sujata Moorti. Global Bollywood: Transnational Travels of Hindi Film Music, Eds. Sangita Gopal and Sujata  Moorti (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 1-60."Engines of Desire: Song and Dance in Bollywood Cinema.” Co-author, Bish Sen. The Bollywood Reader, Eds. Jigna Desai and Rajinder Dudrah (London: Open University Press, 2008), 146-168“The Look in Ruins: Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival and the Dialectics of Seeing.” South Asian Review 26: 1(2005), 338-358."Hindu Being, Hindu Buying: Hindutva Online and the Commodity Logic of Late Nationalism.” South Asian Review 24: 1(2003), 161-179“Sex Outside: Postcoloniality and Ethnosexual Queerness.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 10: 1(2003): 11-33.