Rachel Dwyer

Rachel Dwyer is a professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS, University of London.

Life
Dwyer 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 has published several books on Indian cinema.

Edited books

 * 2015 — Key concepts in modern Indian studies. New Delhi/New York: Oxford University Press/New York University Press.
 * 2015 — Bollywood. London: Routledge. (Critical concepts in media and cultural studies)
 * 2011 — Rachel Dwyer & Jerry Pinto (eds), Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood: The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
 * 2000 — Rachel Dwyer & Christopher Pinney (eds), Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Popular Culture in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (SOAS Studies on South Asia).