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Ravi Vasudevan is a Consultant Lecturer in Film Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jadavpur University, and Ambedkar University Delhi. He co-directs Sarai, a media and urban studies program at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and serves as an editorial advisor for journals such as Screen, Cinema and Cie, Reframe, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
- Co-founded and edits BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies (2010–present)
- Co-directed the Indo-German International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS: MP)
His research focuses on film and media history, urban studies, and media archaeology. He explores non-fiction film infrastructures, historiography, post-cinema media artefacts, and the media histories of advertising and public relations. His work also examines the political and cultural dimensions of media practices.
Vasudevan has curated major events like The Many Lives of Indian Cinema, 1913–2013, What Time Is it? Technologies of Life in the Contemporary, and the Sarai Wager on Cinema series. His publications include Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000), The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (2010, 2016), and co-edited volumes like Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life (2002) and Sarai Reader 03: Media/Crisis (2003).
Vasudevan collaborates with institutions like CSDS, Sarai, and the Raqs Media Collective. He coordinates research in the ICAS/Sarai-CSDS/CSSSC project Objects, Media Practices, Aesthetics and Politics, analyzing material histories and cultural imaginaries in India (c.1940–1960).
