Rita Kothari (born 30 July 1969) is an Indian author and translator from Gujarat, India.

She worked from 2007 to 2017 with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

[1] Kothari's teaching interests include literature, cinema, ethnography, and cultural history.

She translated Joseph Macwan's Gujarati novel Angaliayat as The Stepchild and Ila Mehta's Vaad as Fence (2015) into English.

She co-edited Decentring Translation Studies : India and Beyond (2009) with Judy Wakabayashi and Chutnefying English : The Phenomenon of Hinglish (2011) with Rupert Snell.