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MADHAVI MALLAPRAGADA
CURRICULUM VITAE
Webpage: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/madhavi-mallapragada
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Media and Cultural Studies) Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2003 M.A. (Media and Cultural Studies) Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999 M.Phil. (English), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India 1995 M.A. (English) Stella Maris College, Madras, India 1991 B.A (English) University of Madras, India 1989
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
University of Texas at Austin (2015- ) Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film Faculty Affiliate, Department of Asian Studies Faculty Affiliate, Center for Asian American Studies Member, Center for Health Communication University of Texas at Austin (2006-2015) Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film Indiana University-Bloomington (2003-2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND TEACHING INTERESTS
New Media; Media Industries; Immigrant Cultures; Race and Ethnicity in Media; Asian American Film and Media; Disability, Public Health Advocacy and Media; Critical and Cultural Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Race and Ethnicity in US Media Industries. In progress. British Film Institute- Bloomsbury Press [Under Contract].
Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States. University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
“Immigrant Activism: Narratives of the "H4 Life" by Indian Women on YouTube." Communication, Culture and Critique. Vol. 10, Issue 1 (2017): 76-92.
"Desi Inc: South Asian Americans and the Multicultural Mainstream.” Media, Culture and Society. (Accepted; revisions pending)
“Rethinking Desi: Race, Class and Online Activism of South Asian Immigrants in the United States.” Television and New Media. Vol 15, No. 7 (2014): 664-678.
“Mixed Signals: MTV Desi, South Asian American Audiences and the Discourse of Ethnic Television.” South Asian History and Culture, Special Issue: Television at Large, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (2012): 549-565.
“Desktop Deities: Hindu Temples, Online Cultures and the Politics of Remediation.” Lead Article. South Asian Popular Culture. Vol 8, Issue 2 (2010): 109-121.
“Home, Homeland, Homepage: Belonging and the Indian-American Web.” New Media and Society. Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2006): 207-227.
Book Chapters
"Recasting Migration: Indian Immigrants and Online Networks," in Handbook of Media and Migration, edited by Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn and Radhika Gajjala, London: Sage (in progress)
"A Cultural Historiography of the Homepage," in The Sage Handbook of Web History, edited by Neils Brugger and Ian Milligan, London: Sage, 2018 (forthcoming)
“New Media,” in Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice, edited by Mary Kearney and Michael Kackman, 293-3014, New York: Routledge, 2018.
"Curry as Code: Food, Race and Technology," in Global Asian American Popular Cultures Culture, edited by Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime and Tasha Oren, 263- 275. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Cybercultures.” In Critical Cyberculture 3
Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions, edited by David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, 194-204. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
“The Indian Diaspora in the USA and around the Web.” In Web.studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age, edited by David Gauntlett, 179-185. London: Arnold & OUP, 2000.
Reprints of Refereed Articles as Book Chapters
“Mixed Signals: MTV Desi, South Asian American Audiences and the Discourse of Ethnic Television.” In Television at Large in South Asia, edited by Aswin Punathambekar and Shanti Kumar. New York: Routledge. 2013. Reprint of article originally published in South Asian History and Culture, Special Issue: Television at Large, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (2012): 549-565.
“Home, Homeland, Homepage: Belonging and the Indian-American Web.” In Asian American Feminisms, edited by Leslie Bow, 309-328. New York: Routledge and Edition Synapse, 2013. Reprint of article originally published in New Media and Society. Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2006): 207-227.
“Desktop Deities: Hindu Temples, Online Cultures and the Politics of Remediation.” In Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen, edited by Rajinder Dudrah, Sangita Gopal, Amit Rai and Anustup Basu, 6-18. New York: Routledge, 2012. Reprint of article originally published as lead article in South Asian Popular Culture. Vol 8, Issue 2 (2010): 109-121.
“Home, Homeland, Homepage: Belonging and the Indian-American Web.” In Re Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders, edited by Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah, 60-82. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Reprint of article originally published in New Media and Society. Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2006): 207-227.
Online Essays
“Media Industries in the US and the Race to Capitalize on Multicultural Consumers,” FLOW TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 19.09, Volume 19. http://flowtv.org/2014/05/market-of-the-future/, 2014.
“The New Face of Brown: Capital and Consumption in a Multicultural Era.” FLOW TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 19.09, Volume 19. http://flowtv.org/2014/03/the-new-face-of-brown/, 2014 “Food, Race and Technology.” FLOW TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 19.04, Volume 19. http://flowtv.org/2013/12/food-race-and- technology/, 2013. 4
“Capitalizing on Multiculturalism: ‘Premium’ Indian American Audiences and ‘American’ Advertisers.” Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture. http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/, 2010.
“Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace.” Media and Scholarly Presentation for In Media Res: http://mediacommonsthefutureofthebook.org, 2008.
“The Making of ‘Desi’ Culture on MTV.” Media and Scholarly Presentation for In Media Res: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org, 2006.
Book Reviews
Review of Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video by Glen M. Mimura (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). In Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol.13, Issue 3 (2010): 404-406.
Review of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage by Amit S. Rai (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009). In Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, Oct-Dec, Vol 7, Issue 4 (2009): 284-286.
Review of Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India by Arvind Rajagopal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) In The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television, Issue 50 (2002): 90-93.
RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Disability Tropes in Media Culture: Debating Health, Critiquing Normativity
This project challenges the idea of an ableist world by considering how mainstream media represents mental and physical disabilities through the lens of an apriori normative able body and mind. It considers how online networks, social media platforms and participatory cultures have created a new space for disability rights activists to call attention to issues such as stereotyping and bullying while also using the same media space to inform, educate, advocate and fund-raise. This project bridges new media studies, disability studies and medical humanities studies (medical law, policy and ethics).
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RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS IN PROGRESS
PRINCIPAL TEAM MEMBER, POP UP RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Summer 2018)
In 2016-2017, I worked with my colleagues in the Humanities Institute to propose a Pop-Up Research Institute on Health and Humanities for Summer 2018. The work included brain storming key themes and writing the proposal. Our proposal was successful and is being funded as a summer institute (2018) by the Office of the Vice President for Research. I will be collaborating with my colleagues in the Humanities Institute and The Dell Medical school to convene a scholarly seminar and discussion on the themes of Narrative Medicine, Equity and Diversity and Community Practice. I am one of the principal team members of the Pop-Up Institute on Health and Humanities.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017 Faculty RAISE Award, Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association, University of Texas at Austin
Research Grant, Center for Asian American Studies, 2016-17
Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2017.
Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2012.
Top Faculty Paper, Race and Ethnicity Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference, Boston, 2011.
Dean’s Fellow, Fall Semester, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Summer Research Assignment (SRA), (2 months’ salary), Faculty Development Program, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Faculty Travel Grant, The Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, 2009- 2010. 6
Research Grant of $7,500 per year for two years, under Title VI South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2008.
Research Grant of $ 3,000, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2007.
Overseas Conference Fund Grant, Office of International Programs, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2005.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, College of Arts and Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2004.
McCarty Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
Pearce Award for Academic Performance, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
McCarty Travel Grant, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2001.
The Scott-Kloeck Jenson Pre-Dissertation International Research Travel Award, Institute of Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
Risser Fellowship for Outstanding Female Graduate Student, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
McCarty Travel Grant, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2001.
Pearce Award for Academic Performance, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
Senior Research Fellowship, The University Grants Commission, Government of India, 1994.
Junior Research Fellowship, The University Grants Commission, Government of India, 1992.
Award for Academic Proficiency, English Department, Stella Maris College, 1991.
University of Madras Fellowship, 1989.
The University of Madras Gold Medal for 1st Rank in B.A (English), 1989.
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The Government of India National Talent Scholarship, 1989.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Award for Academic Achievement, India, 1989.
The Rao Bahadur M.A Singarachariar Prize for Academic Excellence, India, 1989.
The Sr. Rose Golden Jubilee Endowment Prize for Academic Proficiency, 1989.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Presenter
Presenter, “Race and Ethnicity in US Media Industries.” International Communication Association-Annual Conference, 2017
Presenter, “Race, Migration and Epistemologies of the Digital.” Roundtable on Reorienting Digital Media Studies: Global and Comparative Perspectives. International Communication Association-Annual Conference, 2017
Presenter, Disability Tropes in Media Culture: Debating Health, Critiquing Normativity. Humanities Institute, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 2017
Presenter, “Online Tactics of Immigrant Activists: Articulating Race and Gender to Social Media Technologies" Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, 2016
Presenter, “The Rise of the Multicultural Consumer: US Industries Restrategize in the Global and Digital Media Marketplace.” Global Fusion Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
Presenter, “Constructing Indian American Masculinities in Network Cultures. Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston 2012.
Presenter, “Mixed Signals: MTV Desi, South Asian American Audiences and the Discourse of Ethnic Television.” Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Boston, 2011.
Presenter, “Consuming Ethnic Television: South Asian America and the New Marketing Frontiers of Multicultural America.” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, New Orleans, 2011.
Presenter, “Home Networks: Gender, Space, Technology.” Technologies of Migration 8
Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011.
Presenter, “Televising Immigrants: Satellite Channels, Indian American Audiences and the US ‘new’ media marketplace.” Global Fusion Conference, Texas A & M University, 2010.
Presenter, “Sites of Contestation: New Media Studies, Online Cultures and the Concept of ‘Home’.” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, University of Oregon, 2010.
Presenter, “Desi Iterations: Online Spaces and Indian American Racialized Subjectivities.” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Presenter, “Media Studies and Asian American Studies: Issues and Intersections.” Roundtable. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Presenter, “Desi Webs: South Asian America, Online Cultures and the Politics of Race.” Race, Ethnicity and New Media Symposium, Texas A&M University, 2009.
Presenter, “Desi Webs: Online Iterations of Indian American Locations.” Global Fusions Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
Presenter, “The US Television Marketplace in the Satellite Age: South Asian Networks and Transnational ‘Ethnic’ Audiences, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
Presenter, “Recasting the Viewer: South Asian Satellite Television and the Emergent Market in the United States.” Workshop on Satellite Television, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
Presenter, “Model Minorities and Cyber Grandpas: Parenting and Cyberspace.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004.
Presenter, “Home and the Indian-American Web.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, 2004.
Presenter, “Transnational Connections: Satellite Technologies and the South Asian Market in the United States.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, 2003.
Presenter, “Targeting the Non-Resident Indian Online: Industrial Practices of the Transnational Web.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of 9
Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
Presenter, “Transnationalism and Cybercultures of the Indian Diaspora,” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
Presenter, “Asian-Indian Masculinities and the World of Internet Networking.” The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Minneapolis, 2001.
Presenter, “Indian Women and the Curry Brigade: Gender and Sexuality on the Web.” Cyberculture Working Group Conference, University of Maryland, 2001.
Presenter, “Nation, Community and the World Wide Web.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
Presenter, “Negotiating Nation and its Women: Satellite Television and the Early Nineties in India.” Console-ing Passions, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2000.
Presenter, “SiliconIndia.com: Technology, Culture and the Indian Diaspora in the United States.” Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, 2000.
Chair, Panel Organizer, Roundtable Moderator or Respondent
Moderator and Discussant, The Problem with Apu Film Screening. Multicultural Engagement Center and the Center for Asian American Studies, UT-Austin, 2018
Moderator, Roundtable on Race, Gender and Sexuality in Production Studies, Flow Conference, RTF Department, UT-Austin, 2016
Chair and Panel Organizer, “Race, Digital Technologies and Social Media Activism.” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, 2016.
Roundtable Moderator, “Getting Back to ‘So What?’” Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
Chair and Panel Organizer, “Interrogating the ‘Indian’ and the ‘American’ in Transnational Media Cultures.” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston 2012.
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Roundtable Organizer, “Media Studies and Asian American Studies: Issues and Intersections.” Roundtable, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Panel Organizer, “Racializing Difference: Media, Citizenship and Asian American Locations.” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Chair and Panel Organizer, “South Asians and Web Technologies: The Politics of Identity, Community and Commerce in Cyberspace.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
Panel Organizer, “Mediating Modernity in the Era of Globalization.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
Panel Organizer, “Diaspora and Desire: The Politics of Female Identity and Sexuality.” Cyberculture Working Group Conference, University of Maryland, 2001.
Chair and Respondent, Panel on “Race, Gender and Ethnicity.” The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Minneapolis, 2001.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presenter, “The Problem with Apu,” Race and Media Conference, University of Washington Seattle, 2018
Invited Presenter, South Asian Americans and US Media Industries, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2018
Invited Presenter, “Asian Americans and Multiculturalism in Contemporary US Media.” Faculty Research Lunch Series, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2015.
Invited Presenter, "From Minority Markets to the New Multiculturalism Mainstream: Emergent Narratives of Race and Ethnicity in US Media Industries.” Race and Media Conference, University of New Mexico, 2015
Invited Presenter, “Multiculturalism and US Media Industries.” Race and Media Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014 (unable to attend; talking points sent to the conference).
Invited Presenter, “Immigrants, US Television and the Post-Network Era.” 11
Roundtable on Representation in the Post-Network Era. Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Invited Presenter, “Web Cultures, New Media Technologies and Indian American Locations.” Presentation at the Seminar on Public and Private, The Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Invited Presenter, “Charlie Chan in the History of American Media.” Presentation at the Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Invited Speaker, “Deconstructing Desi: Media, Identity, Ethnicity.” Indian Students Association, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Invited Panelist, Roundtable on Flow 2.0. Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2008.
Invited Panelist, Roundtable on Asian Americans and Comedy. Flow Conference (in Association with the Austin Asian American Film Festival), University of Texas at Austin, 2008.
Invited Panelist, The Rock Star and the Mullah, The Films of Salman Ahmad and Junoon, A South Asia Institute Film Exhibit and Discussion, University of Texas at Austin, 2007.
Invited Panelist, Water, Film Screening and Discussion, Women, Power and Leadership Film Series, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2007.
Invited Panelist, “Saving Face and Queer Diaspora,” Center for Asian American Studies in Conjunction with Asian Business Students Association's Launch Conference and the Asian Pacific American Coalition, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Invited Presenter, “Satellite Television and the American Desi Market,” Roundtable on Selling to and Through Racial Identities in Contemporary Television, Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Invited Presenter, “Web Technologies, Network Societies and Emergent Indian American Alliances.” Workshop on “Global Media and Democracy in India and China.” Organized by the Global Media and Democracy in Asia Initiative (GMDA), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Invited Panelist, “Techno-Roaming: Spotlighting Innovations from Around the World.” Conference on “Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities.” Organized by the Center for Information Technology and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006 12
Invited Presenter, “Reconfiguring Migrant Locations: The Web & Indian American Alliances in the Network Age.” Cultural Studies Conference: MIGRATIONS, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2006.
Invited Panelist, “Strategic Cyber Practices and Flexible Nation-States: Democracy and New Media Cultures in India.” Workshop on “Global Media and Democracy in India and China.” Organized by the Global Media and Democracy in Asia Initiative (GMDA), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Invited Presenter, “Cyber-diasporic networks and the South Asian Transnational Imaginary.” Conference on “Materializing India: Globalization, Gender and Media.” Organized by the India Studies Program, Indiana University Bloomington, 2005.
Invited Presenter, “Gendered Ethnicities and Cyberspace.” A Symposium on “Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions.” Organized by the Ford Foundation, University of Washington, Seattle, 2003.
Invited Presenter, “Rethinking Transnational Cultural Flows.” Workshop on International Research for the Scott-Kloeck Jenson Pre-Dissertation International Research Travel Awardees. The Institute of Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
Emerging Communities for Advanced Digital Technologies, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Co-organizer and Discussant, “In Antique Lands,” Workshop on Indian and Turkish Cinemas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
“Tradition and Transgression: The Discourse on Sexuality in Deepa Mehta’s Fire.” Co-presenter with Mobina Hashmi at “In Antique Lands,” Workshop on Indian & Turkish Cinemas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at the Graduate Level Theory and Literature-Humanities, PHD Research Methods New Media Technologies and Cultures 13
Media and Diaspora Race and Ethnicity in US Media Industries
Courses Taught at the Undergraduate Level New Media Technologies and Cultures Internet Cultures Asian American Media Cultures
INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION— CONFERENCE COURSES
Doctoral Research Conference Courses
Semester Course No. Course Title
Spring 2007 RTF 388C Research Problems Fall 2008 MES 382 Conference Course (Middle Eastern Studies) Fall 2008 RTF 388C Research Problems Spring 2009 ARA 389 Conference Course (Arabic Studies) Spring 2012 RTF 388 Research Problem in RTF Fall 2012 RTF 388C Doctoral Exam Preparation Spring 2013 RTF 388 Research Problem in RTF Spring 2013 RTF388C Research Problems
Masters Research Conference Courses
Semester Course No. Course Title
Fall 2008 AAS 379 Conference Course in Asian American Studies Fall 2008 RTF 698A Thesis Spring 2009 RTF698B Thesis Fall 2009 ANS 698A Thesis Fall 2009 RTF698A Thesis Spring 2010 ANS 698B Thesis Spring 2010 RTF 698B Thesis Fall 2011 RTF 698A Thesis Spring 2012 RTF 398R Master’s Report Spring 2012 RTF 698B Thesis Fall 2013 RTF 698A Thesis Spring 2014 RTF 698B Thesis
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External Reviewer, Promotion and Tenure External reviewer for the Promotion and Tenure file (assistant to associate) Denison University, 2016.
Journal Manuscript Reviewer
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2016, 2017, 2018 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2016 Communication, Culture, Critique, 2016, 2014 Global Media and Communication, 2014 Television and New Media, 2014, 2013 New Media and Society, 2012, 2006 Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2011 Theory, Culture and Society, 2005
Book Manuscript Reviewer
Routledge Monographs, 2015 Blackwell Publishing in Cultural and Communication Studies, 2007 Bedford-St. Martin’s Publishing, 2006
Manuscript Reviewer for International Organizations
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism, 2016. Ethnicity and Race Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference, 2012, 2011
Board Membership in International Organizations
Executive Board Member, Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism 2016- Board Manager, Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism 2017-
Editorial Service and Membership
Editorial Board, The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2017- Advisory Board, Media Watch: An International Research Journal on Communication and Media, 2013-2016 Student Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television, 1997-2002.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP 15
Society for Cinema and Media Studies International Communication Association Association of Asian American Studies National Communication Association Association of Internet Researchers
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Commencement, Moody College of Communication, Spring 2016- Executive Committee, Center for Asian American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, 2006-present TA/AI/Lecturer Committee, Center for Asian American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, 2012-2013; 2009-2010 Organizer, The Annual Public Lecture of the Center for Asian American Studies, Co- Sponsored by the Department of Radio-Television-Film, 2012 Film Screening Committee, Annual Conference of Asian American Studies, Center for Asian American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, 2010 Foreign Language Association Scholarship (FLAS) committee, South Asia Institute, College of Liberal Arts, 2010 Guest Lecturer, Bridging Disciplines Program, 2010, 2009 Commencement Marshall, College of Communication, 2007 Flagship-Area Content Course Curriculum (FACC) in Hindi and Urdu Committee, South Asia Institute, College of Liberal Arts. Funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), 2006-2007
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Graduate Studies Committee, RTF, 2006-present Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2017-2018 Peer Teaching Reviewer, 2016, 2017. Grievance Committee, 2016-2017 MA and Phd Graduate Admissions Committee, RTF 2015-2016 Assistant Graduate Student Advisor, RTF, 2010-2013 Faculty Mentor, RTF 1st Year Graduate Students, 2010-2013 Guest Lecturer, RTF Pro-Seminar, 2011, 2009, 2008 M.A. Admissions Committee, RTF, 2011-2012 New Media Curriculum Planning Committee, RTF, 2010-2011 Parents Day Committee, RTF, 2009-2010 Panelist, RTF Brown Bag Series, 2010, 2006 Technology and Equipment Committee, RTF, 2009-2010 New Media Hire Search Committee, RTF, 2008-2009 RTF Marshal, College of Communication Commencement, 2007 16
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Judge, #Collegiance Campaign, A National Social Media Contest organized by the College Board, 2016, 2017, 2018
Advisory Board Member, “Kyle Dine and Friends: Allergy Awareness with Songs, Puppets and Games.” A Food Allergy Educational Video/DVD for Schools in the US and Canada, 2015