Bio
Sharmistha Gooptu has a Ph.D in History from the University of Chicago. She is author of Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation, and has written extensively on Indian cinema. She is a founding trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), joint editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series, and editor of the online South Asia Archive.