I have an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop (aka The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa) and a Master of Library Science from UW-M. The career I have from the latter is meant to enable the passion from the former but oft confounds it.
Indian classical music spoke to me the first time I heard it as a teenager. Later, in a college world music class, Bollywood spoke to me as well, and I have been a follower/amateur scholar of it ever since.
Images: I created all the images for this site except for the film covers used in each review. When working with the images in Photoshop, I used images found on the website stock.exchange, a free non-copyrighted image site. The photo on this page, in the header, and in the background of the site are my own.
Bollywood Proposal: In 2010, I wrote a proposal for funding for the development of a Bollywood film collection at the university library for which I worked. This proposal was granted, and in the summer of 2010, patrons will be be able to check out over 50 newly-acquired Bollywood films, which together represent some of the best Bollywood has to offer.
Published Articles: Right now, the only real scholarly article that addresses Bollywood and libraries is Hoffheimer’s 2006 article “Bollywood Law: Commercial Hindi Films with Legal Themes” (Law Library Journal 98.1, pgs 61-79), which only covers Bollywood films that have to do with law. I hope to publish a more all-encompassing article about Bollywood and libraries someday. In the meantime, I can give an impromptu rendition of this choreography:
