Faculty

College / Department

Teaching areas

Media Studies, Communication Theory, 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

PhD, Media & Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

MA, Media & Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

GD, Print Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, India

BA, Mass Communication & Videography, St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, India

Professional experience

Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2015 - Present)

Adjunct Instructor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2012 - 2015)

Teaching Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States(2005 - 2012)

Memberships

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 2016 - present

International Communication Association (ICA), 2012 - present

Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), 2006 - present

Contact

[email protected]

+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 focuses on popular Indian cinema, television and new media discourses in South Asia, stardom and celebrity culture, gender, globalization and culture industries. She has presented her research at various international conferences and her work been published in the edited collections Reorienting Global Communication (2010), Transnational Stardom (2013) and Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere (2020), and in the peer-reviewed journals, South Asian History and Culture (2012), Celebrity Studies (2018, 2020) and South Asian Popular Culture (2020).

Publications

Sreya Mitra, The Question of Minority Citizenship: Shah Rukh Khan as the 'Global Indian' , Accepted, pp. 191-213, 2020

Sreya Mitra, Beyond the Nation and the Diaspora: Examining Bollywood's transnational appeal in the United Arab Emirates, Accepted, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2020

Sreya Mitra, From Rasika to Rowdy to Troll: Examining discourses of Hindi film fandom and the confluence of the popular, the public, and the political, Accepted, Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020

Sreya Mitra, From ‘Angry Young Man’ to ‘Benevolent Patriarch’: Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood stardom and the remaking of post-liberalization India, Published, South Asian Popular Culture, 18, 1, pp. 63-77, 2020

Sreya Mitra, Trolled, Body-Shamed and Slut-Shamed: The desecration of the contemporary Bollywood female star on social media, Published, Celebrity Studies, 11, 1, pp. 101-115, 2020

Sreya Mitra, 'Miss World' meets 'Dutiful Daughter-in-Law': Modernity, marriage, motherhood and the Bollywood female star, Published, Celebrity Studies, 10, 2, pp. 228-246, 2019

Sreya Mitra, 'The Show of the Millennium': Screening the Big Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar, Published, pp. 128-154, 2014

Sreya Mitra, From Heroine to 'Brand Shilpa': Reality television, transnational stardom, and the remaking of the Bollywood celebrity, Published, pp. 187-206, 2013

Sreya Mitra, 'The Show of the Millennium': Screening the Big Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar, Published, South Asian History and Culture, 3, 4, pp. 566-582, 2012

Sreya Mitra, Localizing the Global: Bombay's Sojourn from the Cosmopolitan Urbane to Aamchi Mumbai, Published, pp. 139-160, 2010

Conference Presentations

Sreya Mitra, 'Bollywood Needs the Sound of Arabic': Soft power, media flows and transnational cultural economics of dubbed Hindi content in the Middle East , Media Infrastructures in the Middle East Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, January, 2020

Sreya Mitra, #ModiWithAkshay: Political rhetoric, social media and harnessing the Bollywood star to the task of nation-building , Starring Asia Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, December, 2019

Sreya Mitra, 'Stop trying to be a desperate American': Priyanka Chopra and the travails of a transnational Bollywood female star, SCMS Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, United States, March, 2019

Sreya Mitra, Beyond Nation and Diaspora: Examining the Consumption of Bollywood Content among Emirati and Arab Expatriate Audiences in the UAE, Film and Visual Media in the Gulf , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October, 2018

Sreya Mitra, Trolled, Body-Shamed and Slut-Shamed: Examining the predicament of the contemporary Bollywood female star and social media engagement, Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, Rome, Italy, June, 2018

Sreya Mitra, From 'Angry Young Man' to 'Benevolent Patriarch': Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood stardom and the remaking of post‐liberalization India, ACLA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, United States, March, 2018

Sreya Mitra, From Bollywood heroine to 'cross-continental glamour icon': Priyanka Chopra and the shifting trajectories of (global) Bollywood stardom, CMCS International Conference, Los Angeles, California, United States, March, 2017

Sreya Mitra, The Star as the Twitterati: Examining discourses of Hindi film stardom, and the confluence of the popular, the public, and the political, ACLA Annual Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, March, 2016

Sreya Mitra, Interrogating the limits of Bollywood Superstardom: 'Brand SRK,' Islam and Global India., SCMS Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, March, 2012

Sreya Mitra, 'Miss World' as 'The Dutiful Daughter-in-Law': The Bollywood Female Star and Negotiating the Contradictions of Contemporary Indian Womanhood, Global Fusion Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, October, 2011

Sreya Mitra, I'm a bloody good Indian: Examining the Limits of Bollywood Superstardom during Moments of National Crisis, CSA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, United States, March, 2011

Sreya Mitra, From 'Item Girl' to Style Icon: Reality Television and the Remaking of the Bollywood Celebrity, Console-ing Passions Conference, Eugene, Oregon, United States, April, 2010

Sreya Mitra, The Show of the Millennium': The Big-Money Quiz Show and the Bollywood Superstar, Global Fusion Conference, Austin, Texas, United States, October, 2009

Sreya Mitra, 'Chak De! India' and 'Brand SRK': Un-Othering the Muslim in the Hindi Film Narrative and the Bollywood Superstar, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, October, 2008

Sreya Mitra, From Bombay to Mumbai: Localizing the Urbane in the Cinematic Text, SCMS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, March, 2008

Sreya Mitra, Transporting the Telenova to the Indian Screen: A Study of Indian Soaps, Transnationalism and the Indian Middle Class, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, October, 2006

Grants and sponsorships

Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2021

Awards and Honors

Received, Vilas Research Travel Grant, Graduate Student Collaborative, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011

Received, Elliot Dissertation Scholarship for Dissertation Research, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madisonnsin, 2010

Received, Helen K. Herman Award for Academic Ability, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

Received, Vilas Research Travel Grant, Graduate Student Collaborative, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

Received, Helen K. Herman Award for Academic Ability, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

Received, 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.