Aysha Viswamohan is professor in the Department of HSS at IIT Madras. She works in the areas of Film studies, Fashion studies and American Literature. She has published in journals from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Penn State University, Routledge, Sage, and Intellect. Her recent books comprise edited anthologies: Women Filmmakers in Hindi Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (Springer, 2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (Sage, 2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception & Politics of Award (Anthem, 2013). She was awarded Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute's Canadian Faculty Enrichment Program Fellowship in 2009. She was a Visiting Faculty at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver in 2012.