Rachel Dwyer

Rachel Dwyer is Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema and Head of the Department of South Asia at SOAS, University of London. She took her BA in Sanskrit at SOAS, followed by an MPhil in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. Her PhD research was on the Gujarati lyrics of Dayaram (1777-1852). She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in literature, cinema and South Asian culture. She is currently writing Bollywood’s India: Indian cinema as a guide to modern India for Reakion Books, London.

Books published include: Gujarati London: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, 1995; All you want is money, all you need is love: sex and romance in modern India, London: Cassell/New York: Continuum, 2000; Pleasure and the nation: the history and politics of public culture in India, edited volume with C. Pinney, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000; The poetics of devotion: the Gujarati lyrics of Dayaram, London: Curzon, 2001; Cinema India: