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1/2016 Tejaswini Ganti Research Interests Education Academic And 1/2016 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 3 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 4 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
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