Gita Viswanath has a PhD in Literature and Film Studies from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. She was awarded the Teacher Fellowship from University Grants Commission, New Delhi in the year 2000. Her study, The ‘Nation’ in War: A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema, was published by Cambridge Scholars, UK in 2014.She is the recipient of a Fellowship from the Social Science Research Centre, New York in the year 2006. She has taught in the departments of English at Tolani College of Arts and Science, Adipur, Kutch from 1995 to 2002 and Maharaja Sayajirao University from 2003 to 2006. She has presented papers on film and literature in conferences and seminars in India and abroad. She has also published papers on cinema in journals and edited volumes, two novels, a children’s book, short stories and poems. She is the co-founder of an online film club called Talking Films Online that organizes weekly discussions on films and month-long film festivals.