Rashna Richards

Dr. Rashna Wadia Richards serves as the Dean for Faculty Development, Reviews, and Assessment. Her primary areas of responsibility include overseeing all aspects of faculty development as well as all phases of faculty reviews at Rhodes. In addition, she manages early leaves, sabbaticals, rotational professorships, and research funds; coordinates the evaluation of department and program chairs in collaboration with the Associate Provost; and facilitates the external reviews of departments and programs.

Dr. Richards also chairs the interdisciplinary program in Media Studies. Her teaching and research interests include American film and television, critical theory, and transnational cultural studies. She has published three books. Her first monograph, Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood (2013), and her co-edited collection, For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and outside the Classroom (2017), were published by Indiana University Press. Her third book, Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies (2021), was just published by Oxford University Press.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Visualizing with New Comprehension: Mothering and Autoethnography,” in Mothers of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice, eds. Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer (Forthcoming). 

“Love, Desi Style: Arranged Marriage and Transnational Mobility in Mira Nair’s The Namesake.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 26.1 (2017): 64-80.

“Introduction: Love and Teaching, Love and Film,” For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and outside the Classroom, eds. Rashna Wadia Richards and David T. Johnson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), 1-23.

“Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood.” Transnational Film Remakes, eds. Constantine Verevis and Iain Robert Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 118-129.

“(Not) Kramer vs. Kumar: The Contemporary Bollywood Remake as Glocal Masala Film.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28.4 (2011): 342-352.

“Unsynched: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Luis Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or.” Film Criticism 33.2 (2008-09): 23-43.

“Loose Ends: The Stuff That Movies Are Made of.” Arizona Quarterly 63.4 (2007): 83-118.

“Show-Stoppers: 1937 and the Chance Encounter with Chiffons.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2 (2007): 84-110.

“So Many Fragments, So Many Beginnings, So Many Pleasures: The Neglected Detail(s) in Film Theory.” Criticism 45.2 (2003): 173-195. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)

Short Essays and Reviews

“Teaching Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” The Cine-Files 9 (2015).

“Nothingness, Spectacle, Cinema.” Film Quarterly 61.4 (2008): 92-93.

Review of Mira Nair’s The Namesake. Scope 10 (2008).

“Re-Viewing Cinephilia: The Movement and the Moment.” Politics and Culture 1 (2006).

“Humphrey Bogart,” Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 95-96. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)

Review of Thomas Cartelli’s Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers 24 (2001): 77-79. (Published under maiden name, Wadia)