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