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Tejaswini Ganti Department of Anthropology New York University 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10003 212-998-2108 [email protected]

Research Interests Anthropology of Media, Media Industries, Production Cultures, Political Economy, Visual Anthropology/Visual Culture, Cultural Policy, Nationalism, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Postcolonial Theory, Indian Cinema, South Asia

Education 2000 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, New York University. 1997 Certificate in Culture & Media, departments of Anthropology and Cinema Studies, New York University. 1994 M.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. 1991 B.A. with Distinction, Honors in Political Science, Northwestern University.

Academic and Teaching Positions 2012-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Culture & Media Program, New York University. 2014-2017 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, New York University. 2014-2015 Acting Director, Graduate Program in Culture & Media, New York University 2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Culture & Media Program, New York University. 2003-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College. Fall 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College. 2001-2002 Visiting Fellow, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College. 2000-2001 Minority-Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Anthropology, Haverford College.

Academic Honors, Awards, and Fellowships 2014-15 Visual Arts Initiative Award, NYU Arts Council 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Fellowship Spring 2011 The Humanities Initiative Grant-in-Aid Award, New York University. Fall 2008 Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, New York University. 2006-07 Faculty Colloquium Grant, “Critical Perspectives on South Asia,” Humanities Council, New York University. 2004-2005 Faculty Fellow, CTW Mellon Project for Information Literacy, Connecticut College. Fall 2004 R.F. Johnson Faculty Development Fund, Connecticut College. Summer 2004 Opatrny Research Grant, Connecticut College. 2003-04 R.F. Johnson Faculty Development Fund, Connecticut College. 2000-2002 Minority Scholar-in-Residence Postdoctoral Fellowship (Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges), Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges. 1995-1996 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship to conduct dissertation fieldwork in Bombay, India. 1992-1993 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), for Hindi, University of Pennsylvania. 2

1991-1992 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania. 1991 Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University. 1988-1991 Dean’s List, Northwestern University.

Publications Books 2013 Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, 2nd Edition, London: Routledge. 2012 Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2004 Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, London: Routledge.

Book Chapters Forthcoming “The Changing Nature of Distribution in the Hindi Film Industry,” in Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema, eds. Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar, London: Blackwell. In Press “Fair and Lovely: Class, Gender, and Colorism in Bollywood Song Sequences,” in The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, eds. Elizabeth Kaplan, Patrice Petro, Kristin Hole and Dijana Jelaca, London: Routledge. 2016 “ ‘No One Thinks in Hindi Here’: Language Hierarchies in Bollywood,” in Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor, eds. Michael Curtin & Kevin Sanson, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2013 “Corporatization and the Hindi Film Industry,” in Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas, eds. K. Moti Gokulsing & Wimal Dissanayake, London: Routledge Press, pp. 337-350. 2009 “The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits: Censorship and the Bombay Film Industry,” in Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction, eds. William Mazzarella & Raminder Kaur, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 87-122. 2008 “Mumbai vs. Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry and the Politics of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary India,” in Global Bollywood, eds. Anandam P. Kavoori & Aswin Punathambekar, New York: New York University Press, pp. 52-78. 2007 “And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian: The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood,” [Reprint] in Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema, ed. Julie F. Codell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 439-457. 2002 “And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian: The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, eds. L. Abu-Lughod, F. Ginsburg & B. Larkin, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 281-300.

Journal Articles 2015 “Fuzzy Numbers: The Productive Nature of Ambiguity in the Hindi Film Industry,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 451-465. 2015 “The Politics of Commemorating the Indian Cinema Centenary,” Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 13, no. 2 2014 “The Value of Ethnography,” invited submission for Media Industries, vol. 1, no. 1 2014 “Neoliberalism” invited submission for the Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 43., pp. 89- 104. 2012 “No Longer a Frivolous Singing and Dancing Nation of Movie-Makers: The Hindi Film Industry and its Quest for Global Distinction,” Visual Anthropology vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 340- 65. 2012 “Sentiments of Disdain and Practices of Distinction: Boundary-Work, Subjectivity, and Value in the Hindi Film Industry,” The Anthropological Quarterly vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 5-44. 1998 “Centenary Commemorations or Centenary Contestations? -- Celebrating a 100 Years of

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Cinema in Bombay,” Visual Anthropology vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 399-419.

Book Reviews 2005 Review of William Mazzarella’s Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1-2, pp. 181-83. 2000 “Peeping Through the Lens,” Review of The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability, and Indian Popular Cinema, ed. Ashis Nandy. SAMAR -- South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Fall/Winter, no. 12.

Filmography 1995 Gimme Somethin’ To Dance To! Produced, directed, and edited an 18 minute video which explores the growing audibility of bhangra -- a form of South Asian dance music -- in New York City. It documents the bhangra scene -- the parties, the stores, and the people who are connected to this music. A combination of interviews with key participants and direct observational sequences, this video examines the issue of cultural identity and the tensions surrounding the desire for mainstream cultural acceptance versus cultural resistance that are prominent aspects of the diasporic experience. Used in anthropology, Asian-American studies, and ethnomusicology courses at American University, Barnard College, California State University-Fullerton, Columbia University, Cornell University, Drake University, Harvard University, Loyola University, Luther College, Middlebury College, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, San Francisco State University, Syracuse University, Temple University, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Riverside, University of Hawaii, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Wesleyan University. Screenings 1999 Screening Identities: A Festival of Recent South Asian Documentary Films: New York University, December 10. 1997 Fifth Annual Performing Arts of Asia Festival: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, May 2, New York City. 1996 Asian Cinevision Videoscape 1996: New Museum of Contemporary Art (May 17), Donnell Media Center (May 20-31), and CUNY-TV (June 17, 23), New York City. 1995 4th Annual Film Festival of Women Directors from South Asia: Sakhi for South Asian Women, December 9, New York City. 1995 24th Annual Conference on South Asia: University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 20-22.

Conferences, Series, and Exhibits Organized 2014-15 Co-organizer, Global South Asia: Publics and Politics, Conference, New York University, February 27-28, 2015. 2013-14 Organizer, New South Asiam Documentary: On and Off Screen, Symposium, New York University, September 25-27, 2014. 2006-07 Member of Steering Committee and Moderator, Signs of Crisis: Religious Conflict, Human Rights and the New Documentary Film in Southern Asia Conference, New York University, May 17-19, 2007. 2006-07 Co-Organizer, Critical Perspectives on South Asia Lecture/Film Series. Funded by the Humanities Council of New York University. 2002 Curator, The Ramayana and its Media Incarnations [ as part of the larger exhibit, Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion]: American Museum of Natural History, New York, February

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8-10. A series illustrating the significance and impact of the Ramayana in contemporary Indian popular culture by focusing on the various manifestations of the epic in calendar art, feature film, documentary film, and television. Fall 2002 Organizer, Documenting South Asia Film/Speaker Series, Haverford College. Spring 2002 Organizer, Visual Culture in South Asia Film/Speaker Series, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College. Spring 2001 Organizer, Popular Cinema in India Film Series, Haverford College. 1999 Co-Organizer, Screening Identities: A Festival of Recent South Asian Documentary Films. New York University.

Invited Lectures & Presentations Seminars/Colloquia Series 2015 Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: The Politics of Language in Bollywood. Anthropology Colloquium, Harvard University, October 19. 2013 Producing Bollywood: The Social and Institutional Transformations of the Hindi Film Industry. Center for South Asia Spring Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 14. 2012 Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry. Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University/SUNY, November 12. 2012 Producing Bollywood: The Social and Institutional Transformations of the Hindi Film Industry. Department of Anthropology Speaker Series, Rutgers University, April 12. 2012 Producing Bollywood: The Social and Institutional Transformations of the Hindi Film Industry. Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, February 22. 2011 Producing Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry in an Age of Neoliberalism. South Asia Seminar, Syracuse University, September 20. 2011 Producing Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry in an Age of Neoliberalism. South Asia Program Seminar Series, Cornell University, September 19. 2011 From ‘Sinful Technology’ to ‘Entertainment Industry’: The Evolution of State Policy toward the Hindi Film Industry. India Leadership Exchange Program, Stern School of Business, New York University, May 26. 2010 Producing Bollywood: The Social and Institutional Transformations of the Hindi Film Industry. South Asia Seminar, University of Chicago, May 20. 2009 How the Bombay Film Industry Became ‘Bollywood.’ The New India Forum, Temple University, September 23. 2009 Not Just Another Song and Dance Routine: Music, Developmentalism and the ‘Bollywood Effect’, Southern Asia Institute, Columbia University, April 6. 2007 Box-Office Mantras: The Bombay Film Industry and the Symbolics of Success. Anthropology Colloquium, Harvard University, February 12. 2006 Global Bollywood. Program in International Affairs, The New School for Social Research, March 2. 2006 GloBollywood. South Asian Studies Lecture Series, New York University, February 27. 2006 Masses, Classes, Good Girls, and Bad Men: Discourses of Class and Gender in the Bombay Film Industry. Keynote Address: East West Film Festival, Wellesley College, February 26. 2005 Bollywood. Faculty Book Talk, Connecticut College, March 7. 2005 To Sing or Not to Sing? The Dilemma of Diegetic Music in the Hindi Film Industry. Department of Anthropology Colloquium, New York University, February 3. 2004 Masses, Classes, Good Girls and Bad Men: Discourses of Class and Gender in the Bombay Film Industry. South Asia Colloquium, Yale University, September 30. 2004 Around the World in 8 Minutes: Song, Dance, and Spectacle in Bollywood. Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 16.

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2004 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Hindi Cinema. Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, April 5. 2003 Around the World in 8 Minutes: Music, Modernity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Department of Anthropology & Media Cloisters, Vassar College, October 2. 2003 The Hindi Film Industry’s Practices of Indianization. Department of Art History, Mt. Holyoke College, April 14. 2003 Around the World in 8 Minutes: Music, Modernity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Department of International Studies, Macalester College, February 28. 2003 Around the World in 8 Minutes: Music, Modernity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Department of Anthropology, Bard College, February 25. 2003 Not Just Another Song and Dance: Bombay Filmmakers and the Dilemma of Diegetic Music. Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College, January 30. 2001 Much More Than a Song and Dance: The Social and Visual World of Hindi Film Music. Center for Visual Culture Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College, November 14. 2000 Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian): Culture, Identity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, February 23. 2000 Hitting the Right Note: Hindi Filmmakers and the Cultural Logics of Commercial Success. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, February 14. 1999 Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani: The (H)Indianization of Hollywood by the Bombay Film Industry. 51st Annual South Asia Seminar Series: New Perspectives on Performance, Media, and Society in South Asia, University of Pennsylvania, February 17. 1993 Escapist Formulas? The State of Discourse and the Discourse of the State in Hindi Cinema. 46th Annual South Asia Seminar Series: Language, Literature, and Society in South Asia, University of Pennsylvania, February 10.

Conferences/Symposia/Workshops 2015 Discussant -- Technologies of Mediation, Modern South Asia Workshop, Yale University, April 11-12. 2014 Dewesternizing Production Studies: Lessons from Bollywood.” Keynote Address. Workshop: Featuring Africa: Exploring the Plurality of African Digital Film Cultures, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, University of Liege, Belgium, October 3. 2014 Navigating the Diversity of Indian Cinema. Conference: REFORMA (Ethnic Caucuses of the American Library Association) Northeast Chapter 10th Annual Joint Mini Conference, Hispanic Society of America, New York, June 6. 2014 Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: The Linguistic Division of Labor in the Hindi Film Industry. Conference: Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 24-25. 2013 Filmi Bhasha and the Bhasha of Filmmaking: Language Ideologies in the Hindi Film Industry. Conference: Contemporary Hindi/Urdu Literature and the Arts, Princeton University, December 6. 2013 Rethinking Global Film History Through the Unexpected Peregrinations of Hindi Cinema. New Media and Mass/Popular Culture in the Global South, A.W. Mellon Workshop, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 15. 2013 The Necessity of Chance: Negotiating Hope and Uncertainty in Commercial Hindi Film Production. Speculation in India – Seminar on Imaginaries of Indian Economies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2. 2013 Erasing the Economic: Managing Uncertainty in the Hindi Film Industry. Conference: The Indian Cinema Century – Film, Technology and the Contemporary, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, India, January 11.

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2012 Bombay Filmmakers and Their Theories of Affect, Visuality, and Spectatorship. Workshop: “Capturing the Public Eye”: Publics, Visuality, and Affect, University of Leiden, Netherlands, November 9. 2012 From Vice to Virtue: The Altered Cultural Status of Hindi Cinema in Contemporary India. Symposium: Arts in Contemporary India, The College of New Jersey, October 19. 2012 Participant – Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Film Remakes. Conference: Media Across Borders – Researching the Localisation of Film, Television, and Video Games, University of Roehampton, U.K., June 9. 2011 Discussant – Desire and Belonging in the City. Conference: URBAN INDIA: Historical Processes and Contemporary Experience, Yale University, April 29-May 1. 2009 The Making of Bollywood. Conference: Global South Asia, New York University, February 14. 2006 Blockbusters and Bombs at the Box-Office: The Bombay Film Industry and the Cultural Logic of Commercial Success. Conference: The Social and Material Life of Indian Cinema, New York University, April 20. 2005 Of Lechers and Loose Women: Gender, Class, and ‘Respectability’ in the Bombay Film Industry. Conference: Class-ifying “Asian Values”-- Culture, Morality, and the Politics of Being Middle Class in Asia, College of the Holy Cross, November 4. 2005 The Indian Film Industry: Bollywood and Globalization. International Symposium: South Asia, Saginaw Valley State University, February 17. 2003 Around the World in 8 Minutes: Music, Modernity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Vernacular Modernities Program: Workshop on Media and Transnational Culture, Emory University, February 21. 2001 ‘Better Audiences’ = ‘Better Films’: Hindi Filmmaking in the Age of Satellite Television. Workshop on Gender, Globalization, & Representation in South Asia, Syracuse University, March 31. 2000 Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian): Culture, Identity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Workshop: Remaking the Public -- Indian Cinema and its Futures, University of California at Berkeley, April 7-8. 1999 Not Just Another Song and Dance: The Multiple Roles of Indian Film Music. Dancing in the Rain: A Symposium on Indo-Egyptian Musical Films, New York University, January 30. 1998 Imagining the Audience: The Cultural Logic of the Production and Distribution of Hindi Films. University of Chicago & New York University Graduate Student Workshop, Sponsored by the Ford and MacArthur Foundations, May 15-17. 1998 Imagining the Audience: The Cultural Logic of the Production and Distribution of Hindi Films. Bollywood (Un)Limited: Global Responses to Popular Indian Cinema, University of Iowa, April 17-18.

Panel Discussions/Screenings/Readings 2015 Panelist – Other Directions: Notes on the Study of Film and Society, Harvard-Brown Pakistani Film Festival: Love, War, & Other Longings, Harvard University, October 18. 2015 Moderator – Emergent Cinema: Potential, Perils, and Prospects, Harvard-Brown Pakistani Film Festival: Love, War, & Other Longings, Harvard University, October 18. 2015 Introducing Indian Cinema and DevD, Asia Film Week: Love and Other Obsessions, Boston University, April 9. 2014 “Non/Fiction” A discussion on fact vs. fiction in filmmaking and storytelling with filmmaker Shalini Kantayya, In Focus: An Afternoon of Film and Video, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, New York, December 14. 2014 Book Reading and Discussion of Producing Bollywood, Godrej India Culture Lab, Mumbai,

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January 24. 2013 Book Discussion of Producing Bollywood with Nandini Ramnath, Reporter for Hindustan Times’ Mint, Kitab Khana, Mumbai, September 2. 2012 Book Reading of Producing Bollywood. Autumn Author Series, Monday Night Book Club, Nutley Public Library, Nutley, New Jersey, December 3. 2012 Book Reading of Producing Bollywood. Indo-American Arts Council, New York, April 30. 2011 Beyond Bollywood Show Cards. Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, June 14. 2010 New Directions in South Asian Cinema. Engendered I-View Film Festival, New York, September 20. 2010 The Changing Face of Women’s Sexuality in South Asian Cinema. Engendered Film Salon, New York, January 29. 2009 Reframing Indian Cinema. Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York University, November 13. 2007 Bollywood and its Foreign Markets. Consulate General of India, New York, November 8. 2007 King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. The Asia Society, New York, October 5. 2004 Amnesia, Complicity, and Passivity in the Mainstream U.S. Media: Or Why is Jon Stewart the Only One Asking the Right Questions?” Panel Discussion: International Perspectives on the Upcoming Presidential Election, Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts, Connecticut College, October 27. 2004 Engaging Issues of Race, Ethnicity, Privilege and Power in the Curriculum. Connecticut College Fall Weekend, October 9. 2004 Engaging Issues of Race, Ethnicity, Privilege and Power in the Curriculum. Connecticut College Reunion Weekend, June 5. 2004 Teaching About and Teaching To Diversity. Center for Teaching and Learning Diversity Discussion and Dinner, Connecticut College, April 27. 2002 Introductory Remarks, Hum Saath Saath Hain (We Stand United). The Ramayana and its Media Incarnations, American Museum of Natural History, New York, February 10. 2001 Researching Media Worlds. Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Day, New York University, March 24. 2000 Introductory Remarks, Pardes (Foreign Land). Conference: Traveling Cultures -- The Cultural Production of Diaspora, Barnard College, April 21. 1999 Introductory Remarks, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (The One with a True Heart Wins the Bride). Bombay Blockbusters: Popular Hindi Cinema, The Asia Society, New York, January 31. 1998 Effect of Hollywood on World Cinema. Craft and Commerce in Cinema, Stern School of Business, New York University, May 1-2.

Conference Presentations 2016 The Problem of Enumeration and the Problematizing Enumeration. Workshop – Little Data: Challenges and Strategies for Media Research in Contexts of Absence and Scarcity. Annual Meeting, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Atlanta, April 3. 2015 Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: The Politics of Language in the Bombay Film Industry. Panel – Media and Multilingualism in South Asia. 114th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 20. 2015 Chair – Bollywood B-Movies and Beyond, Annual Meeting, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, March 27. 2015 Moderator – Media, Power and Publics in India and Pakistan, Global South Asia: Publics and Politics, New York University, February 28.

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2014 Moderator – The Political Economy of Documentary Filmmaking. Symposium on New South Asian Documentary, New York University, September 27. 2014 Discussant – Imagining the Audience: Media Production and the Construction of Difference in Independent India. Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 30. 2014 The Politics of Commemoration in the Hindi Film Industry. Workshop – Afterthoughts on the Centenary of Bombay Cinema. Annual Meeting, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, March 20. 2013 The Necessity of Chance: Negotiating Ambiguity and Uncertainty in the Hindi Film Industry. Panel – Film Industries. 112th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 23. 2013 Discussant – Engaging with Publics: Distrust, Risk, and Uncertainty. 112th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 21. 2011 Production Fictions: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Bollywood. Panel – Media Industries: Ethnographies of Contemporary Commercial Media. 110th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 16. 2010 Sentiments of Disdain and Practices of Distinction: Understanding the Production Culture of the Bombay Film Industry. Panel – Crafting Media: Ethnographies of Media in the Making. 109th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 19. 2006 From Vice to Virtue: Filmmaking, the State, and Modernity in India. Panel – Transnational Media and Postcolonial Governance. 105th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 15. 2005 Blockbusters and Bombs at the Box-Office: The Bombay Film Industry and the Cultural Logic of Commercial Success. Panel – ‘Studying Up’ Revisited: Ethnography at the Nexus of Mass- Mediated Cultural Production. 104th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 4. 2003 Masses, Classes, Good Girls and Bad Men: Discourses of Class and Gender in the Bombay Film Industry. Panel – Situating Class and Gender: Being Middle Class in a Gendered World. 102nd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 21. 2002 Too Hot to Handle: The Bombay Film Industry and Its Anxieties About Censorship. Panel – The Cultural Politics of Censorship in South Asia. 101st Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 22. 2001 Mumbai vs. Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry and the Politics of Heritage in Contemporary India. Panel - The Urban Imaginary: Rehistoricizing Film, the City and the Nation. Society for Cinema Studies 2001 Conference, Washington D.C., May 26. 2000 Cinema as Public Culture: History, Modernity, and the Bombay Film Industry. Invited Session - Visual Anthropology in the Public Sphere: Intersections of Media, Culture and Ethnography. 99th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 17. 2000 Discussant - Negotiating the Everyday: South Asia, Identity, and the Global Diaspora. Third International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, U.K., June 23. 1999 If We Make It Will They Come?: Hindi Filmmakers and the ‘Tyranny’ of the Audience. Panel - Media and Ethnography: Methods, Sites, and Politics. 98th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20. 1998 Imagining The Audience: The Cultural Logic of the Production of Indian Popular Cinema. Panel - Engaging the Media: Ethnographies and Agencies from Mass Mediated Spaces. 97th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2. 1997 Discussant - Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Media: India and the Western Imaginary.

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26th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 17-19. 1995 Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drummer: Bhangra Music in New York City. 24th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 20-22. 1993 Police, Kanoon, aur Insaaf: The Discourse of the State in Hindi Films. 22nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, November 5-7. 1993 Police, Kanoon, aur Insaaf: The Discourse of the State in Hindi Films. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies, Ramapo College, New Jersey, October 29-31.

Media/Press Television 2011 What’s in a Name? – Arisa Cox, CBC News, The National, June 19.

Print 2015 Flat to Fat: Ms Big in Bollywood – Kalpana Nair, The Times of India, March 8. 2014 Bollywood favorite Madhuri Dixit returns to big screen in Dedh Ishqiya – Aparita Bhandari, Toronto Star, January 11. 2013 The gentrification of Hindi cinema – Nandini Ramnath, Mint, September 5. 2013 Despite new states Mumbai film industry still follows map of the British Raj – Vikram Doctor, The Economic Times, August 5. 2012 TIFF 2012: Beyond Bollywood at City to City – Aparita Bhandari, Toronto Star, September 12. 2012 ‘Hindi cinema has gained a certain cultural legitimacy’ – Arthur J. Pais, India Abroad, April 6. 2011 Bollywood’s Global Push – Kalyani Vittala, Christian Science Monitor, May 31. 2011 From Bollywood to Big Gulps…and back – Mike Gruss, The Virginian-Pilot. May 15. 2009 Take One: I do – Maria Giovanna, Jet Wings, Jet Airlines In-flight Magazine, October. 2009 Slumdog doesn’t feel good in India -- Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times. January 24. 2008 Critics to critique – Academia and Bollywood – Vikram Doctor, The Economic Times, December 13. 2007 Beginner’s Guide to Bollywood – Spirit, Southwest Airlines In-flight Magazine, November. 2005 Why passage to Bollywood may mean a turn on the casting couch – Steve Bird, Times of London. April 9. Story syndicated by the Press Trust of India. 2005 Bombay’s colorful films invite America to sing and dance – Tamara Ikenberg, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 1. Story syndicated by Gannett News Service. 2004 Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ fires up debate on politics, news media – Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News, June 18. Story syndicated by Knight Ridder/Tribune Media Services. 2004 Indian Films Finding Niche – Larry Williams, Hartford Courant, April 30. 2004 Local Viewers Bid Adieu – David Pencek, Norwich Bulletin, April 30.

Radio 2011 The Business and Scale of Bollywood – Early Edition, CBC Radio Syndication, Vancouver, Whitehorse, Winnipeg, June 24. 2007 Bollywood Takes on ‘My Cousin Vinny’ – Day to Day, National Public Radio, August 24. 2007 Bollywood Sirens - On the Media, National Public Radio, May 4. 2005 Breaking into Bollywood -- Marketplace, National Public Radio, April 3. 2004 Talk to America: What is Bollywood? – Voice of America, August 6. 2004 Intersection of Entertainment and Politics in India – Metro Beats, Columbia University Radio News, April 23. Internet 2012 Movie Lovers We Love: Bollywood Anthropologist Tejaswini Ganti Explains Why There’s No Indie

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Industry in India – Bryce J. Renninger, Indiewire, April 6. 2012 Indian Film Industry (Bollywood) – Perspectives and Outlook -- Sameer Kamat, MBA Crystal Ball, March 16. 2011 The Debate Over Bollywood – CBC News, June 13. 2007 Kal Penn Optimistic for Diverse Hollywood – Sakshi Didwania, The Showbuzz, cbsnews.com, April 9. 2005 What Are the Rules of Bollywood? -- Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, June 2. 2001 Bollywood Produces Real-Life Drama – Leela Jacinto, abcnews.go.com, May 4.

Media Advisor 2011 Advised Michael Biddle, Director of Design, Christopher Chadbourne & Associates Exhibit Design and Museum Planning, in helping his team develop and design a proposal for a Hindi Film Industry Museum, submitted to the Government of Maharashtra as part of a competitive CFP in August. 2010 Advised award-winning independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch about Indian cinema for his next film project. 2010 Advised Theodora Yoshikami, Manager, Public Programs, American Museum of Natural History, about Bollywood for their Global Weekend program, “Bollywood and Anime in America,” New York, April 17-18.