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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mass Communication

Teaching areas

Communication Studies, Media History & Criticism, Popular Culture, Culture & Media Industries, Globalization

Research areas

Stardom and celebrity studies, gender studies, popular culture, globalization, culture & media industries, South Asian diaspora, contemporary Indian film and television

Education

BA, St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, India, 2001
Post Graduate Diploma, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, India, 2002
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2008
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2012

Professional experience

American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, 2012 - current
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2005-2012

Memberships

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), International Communication Association (ICA)

Contact

smitra@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2619

Dr. Sreya Mitra

Assistant Professor
PhD in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Sreya Mitra has taught media studies courses at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and journalism at the University of Wollongong, Dubai. Her research and teaching interests include South Asian cinema and television, globalization, popular culture, social media, diaspora, gender studies, mass communication theory, intercultural communication, persuasion, and organizational communication. She has presented her research at various international conferences and her work been published in the edited collections Reorienting Global Communication (2010) and Transnational Stardom (2013), and in Journal of South Asian History and Culture (2012).

Publications

“From Heroine to ‘Brand Shilpa’: Reality television, transnational stardom, and the remaking of the Bollywood celebrity.” Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture. Eds. Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 187-206. 2013.
“‘The Show of the Millennium’: Screening the Big Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar.” South Asian History and Culture. Volume 3, Number 4 (October 2012): 566–582.
“Localizing the Global: Bombay’s Sojourn from the Cosmopolitan Urbane to Aamchi Mumbai.” Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Eds. Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 139–160. 2010.

Conference Presentations

“From Bollywood heroine to ‘cross-continental glamor icon’: Priyanka Chopra and the shifting trajectories of (global) Bollywood stardom.” Paper presented at the Centre for Media & Celebrity Studies conference, Los Angeles, California. 19 March 2017.
“The Star as the Twitterati”: Examining discourses of Hindi film stardom, and the confluence of the popular, the public, and the political.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 19 March 2016.
“Interrogating the limits of Bollywood Superstardom: ‘Brand SRK,’ Islam and Global India.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Boston, Massachusetts. 25 March 2012.
“‘Miss World” as “The Dutiful Daughter-in-Law’: The Bollywood Female Star and Negotiating the Contradictions of Contemporary Indian Womanhood.” Paper presented at the Global Fusion Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 14 October 2011
“‘I’m a bloody good Indian’: Examining the Limits of Bollywood Superstardom during Moments of National Crisis.” Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois. 26 March 2011.
“From ‘Item Girl’ to Style Icon: Reality Television and the Remaking of the Bollywood Celebrity.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Eugene, Oregon.22 April 2010.
“‘The Show of the Millennium’: The Big-Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar.” Paper presented at the Global Fusion Conference, Austin, Texas. 18 October 2009.
“Chak De! India and ‘Brand SRK’: Un-Othering the Muslim in the Hindi Film Narrative and the Bollywood Superstar.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. 19 October 2008.
“From Bombay to Mumbai: Localizing the Urbane in the Cinematic Text.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7 March 2008.
“Localizing the Global: Bombay’s Sojourn from the Cosmopolitan Urbane to Aamchi Mumbai.” Paper presented at the Urban Representations II: Media Publics conference, sponsored by the Center for Screen Cultures (School of Communications), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 12 May 2007.
“Transporting the Telenova to the Indian Screen: A Study of Indian Soaps, Transnationalism and the Indian Middle Class.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. 20 October 2006.

Awards and Honors

Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2016.
Vilas Research Travel Grant (for fieldwork in Mumbai, India), Graduate Student Collaborative, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010, 2011.
Elliot Dissertation Scholarship for Dissertation Research, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010.
Helen K. Herman Award for Academic Ability, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007, 2010.
First Year McCarthy Scholarship Award, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005.

Other creative/research

Reprint. “‘The Show of the Millennium’: Screening the Big Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar.” Television at Large in South Asia. Routledge India. 128–154. 2013.

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