Ravi S. Vasudevan Centre for the Study of Developing Societies/SARAI, India

Ravi Vasudevan works at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and with Sarai, the Centre’s media and urban research programme. He is guest faculty in Film Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Vasudevan is editorial advisor to the film studies journals Screen, Cinema and Cie, and Reframe, part of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series, and co-founder of the journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. He has curated and organised film screenings, lecture series and conferences, most recently The Many Lives of Indian Cinema, 1913-2013 and Beyond: Disciplines, Histories, Technologies, Futures (Sarai/CSDS January 2014). His publications include (ed.) Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (Delhi, OUP, 2000) and The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (Permanent Black, 2010). 

He is currently working on non-fiction film infrastructures and histories in colonial and early Independent India, and on the emergence of video technologies in the 1980s. This is part of a Sarai project on media information and infrastructures he runs with his colleague Ravi Sundaram.