He is Professor of International Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington, where he holds an endowed professorship from the College of Arts and Sciences.
[4] He has developed and taught courses on Hinduism (particularly the Bhakti traditions); theories of religion; Indian culture; and the history and politics of yoga.
[7] In 2016, Novetzke, along with co-authors William Elison and Andy Rotman, published a book on the 1977 Bollywood film Amar Akbar Anthony.
[8] Though published by the scholarly Harvard University Press, the book, entitled Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation, attracted the attention of the mainstream Indian press, with the authors giving interviews about the book for the Hindu,[9] Mid-Day,[10] and Daily News and Analysis.
Venkiteswaran calls the work "an eminently readable book that will delight any cineaste for its sheer passion for cinema and for the delightful theoretical dexterity with which it weaves a complex and rich web of information and analysis.