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Faculty Member, Communication Studies
Assistant Professor
About
Aswin Punathambekar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. His research and teaching revolve around globalization, cultural industries, inter-media relations, media history, and public culture with a focus on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. He is co-editor of Global Bollywood (NYU Press, 2008) and is currently writing a book about the globalization of Indian film and television (Looking L.A., Talking Bombay: Globalization and the making of Bollywood). Aswin’s research also examines fan communities that cohere around different aspects of film and television (for e.g., fans of A. R. Rahman, the TV show Indian Idol) in order to map the dynamics of participatory culture in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. He blogs about these and other topics at BollySpace 2.0 (http://bollyspace.wordpress.com).
