Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Gender Studies Her work focuses on gender and nationalism. She is the author of Warriors in Politics: Hinduism, Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India (Westview 2000), Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India (SUNY 2005) and Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland (NYU 2012), Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in India (Routledge, 2016).