Rijuta Mehta

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Areas of interest

Postcolonial Studies
Film and Media Studies
Feminist Theory
Race and Ethnic Studies

Biography

Rijuta Mehta is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She holds a doctorate from the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is co-author of 23 Grams of Salt: Retracing Gandhi's March to Dandi (2020), and is currently completing a monograph on forms of anticolonialism.

Select publications

"Manifest Documentary," Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (forthcoming).
"Protest without End." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 2021. 32 (2): 39–68.
"Finding Zinat Mahal." Hyperallergic. Sept 27, 2021.
"Brokering Suitability: On Indian Matchmaking." Los Angeles Review of Books. July 31, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/brokering-suitability-indian-matchmaking/
(With Anuj Ambalal) 23 Grams of Salt: Retracing Gandhi's March to Dandi. Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Press. 2020. http://www.navajivantrust.org/23%20Grams%20of%20Salt-English-Rijuta%20Mehta-Anuj%20Ambalal-Arts-9788172297909
“Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation.” In Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence, 140–63. Duke UP, 2020. https://www.dukeupress.edu/abjection-incorporated
“Living with the Other Half: Slum Specials on Reality TV .” Studies in South Asian Film and Media 4, no. 1 (2012): 39–59.
"The Long Moment in Racial Justice," Cultural Critique 116 (Summer 2022) (forthcoming).
Review of Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 14, no. 3 (2018): 348–50.