Media, Performance & Identity Research Circle
deterritorialization of culturecultural translationlocal uses of global mediameaning productiondiscourses of controlmodes of expressioncontexts of expression
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Participant RoomsKsenija BilbijaPeggy ChoyMichael CurtinAlbert GuntherShanti KumarTomislav LonginovicHemant ShahR. Anderson Sutton

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Shanti Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Arts

Biography

Shanti Kumar is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   He holds a masters degree in  Mass Communication and Journalism from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, a masters  degree in Media Studies from Texas Christian University, and a Ph.d in Mass Communications from Indiana University-Bloomington.  He also has professional experience in television,  newspaper, advertising and multimedia industries in India.

He is the author of Unimaginable Communities: Television and the Politics of Nationalism in  Postcolonial India (forthcoming) and the co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (2003).  He has also published book chapters in edited anthologies and articles in journals such as Television and New Media, Jump Cut, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture and The Quarterly  Review of Film and Video.  His research and teaching interests include television and new media  technologies, global media studies, and postcolonial theory.

He has taught several undergraduate courses in media and cultural studies such as plain Introduction to Television, Telecommunications Policy, Communication Technologies and  Society, Music Television and Global Youth Cultures, Indian Cinema and Television.  Among the graduate seminars he has taught are Global Media Cultures, Media, Performance and Identity, and  Postcolonial Theory and Criticism.

He has served on the Advisory Committee of the Center for South Asia, at the University of  Wisconsin-Madison, and is a member of the steering committee for several research circles on campus such as Media, Performance and Identity, Borders and Transnational Cultural Studies,   and Global Media and Democracy in Asia.

 

 

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Themes
Deterritorialization of Culture | Cultural Translation
Meaning Production | Local Uses of Global Media
Discourses of Control | Contexts of Expression
Modes of Expression

Participants
Ksenija Bilbija | Peggy Choy | Michael Curtin
Albert Gunther | Shanti Kumar | Tomislav Longinovic
Hemant Shah | R. Anderson Sutton

The MPI Research Circle is sponsored by
The UW-Madison International Institute