Ranu Roychoudhuri is Assistant Professor and Program Chair of Performing and Visual Arts in the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art in South Asia with an emphasis on photography, print history, intellectual histories of art, art historiography, and postcolonial studies. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and art magazines and her research has been supported by the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and several centres at The University of Chicago, from where she received her doctoral degree. She curated shows for private and public institutions and taught in the US and Indian higher education institutions.