Sujata Mody is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University, where she teaches courses on Hindi-Urdu language and literature and South Asian literature and culture.

She specializes in modern Hindi literature, theories of gender and nationalism, and language politics in South Asia.

Her current research focuses on the project of modernization taken up by Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (1864-1938) as editor of the prominent Hindi literary journal 'Sarasvati' and the journal's contributions to the formation of a literary-nationalist Hindi public sphere in the early 20th century.

She received her PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.