Faculty Interview: Shanti Kumar this Thursday, February 10
February 7, 2005 03:26 PMShanti Kumar, a candidate for a full-time faculty position in the Department of Cinema Studies, will present "At Home, In the World: the Bifocal Vision of Indian Television" on Thursday, February 10, 11–12:30 pm, in 721 Broadway, Room 656.
Professor Kumar will also be meeting with students from 4:30 – 5:30 pm in the Dean's Conference Room on the 12th floor.
Professor Kumar is currently Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D in Mass Communications from Indiana University-Bloomington and has professional experience working in a newspaper, an advertising agency, and a multimedia company in India.
He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime: Television and the Politics of Nationalism in Postcolonial India (University of Illinois Press, 2005, forthcoming) and the co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (New York University Press, 2003). He has also published book chapters in several 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 cultural studies, global media studies, Indian cinema, and postcolonial theory and criticism. For more information visit: