Biography
- Education
Founding Director, Communications Program, Dept. English, Theater Arts, and Communications. 1988-
Founding Chair, Dept. of Media and Communication, 2010-2014
Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair, 2005- 2008.
Southern Illinois University
1992
Doctor of PhilosophyUniversity of Tennessee
1984
Master of Science in Broadcasting
- Research Interests
- Cinema Studies, World Cinema, Visual Cultures, Critical Theory, Philosophy, Anthology Films, Diasporic Issues, and Political Cinema Master’s thesis: semiotics of television Doctoral thesis: on the relationship between Michel Foucault's concept of popular memory and cinema.
- Hometown
- At Home in the World
- Home Country
- India-Cosmopolitan
Publications
Media Editor, Little India, a magazine for the immigrant issues, 1994-2019.
Columnist for DearCinema, 2009-2014.
Co-author with Meta Mazaj (UPenn): World Cinema: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2018.
Forthcoming: Anthology Film and World Cinema (Bloomsbury).
Shekhar Deshpande, Meta Mazaj, World Cinema: A Critical Introduction, 2018.
Shekhar Deshpande, Anthology Film and World Cinema, Forthcoming.
Shekhar Deshpande, Cinema and Popular Memory: Critical Theory, History on Film and Popular Memory, VDM Verlag Publishers, 2011.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Windows and Cinema: Special Guest Lecture,” Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, Oct. 9, 2021.
Shekhar Deshpande, “The Ontology of Windows and Cinema in the Pandemic: e-flux and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’s Film Series 2020,” Senses of Cinema, #98, May 2021.
Shekhar Deshpande, “The Realm of the Sensible and the Short Film: The 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen,” Senses of Cinema, # 99, July 2021.
Shekhar Deshpande, Meta Mazaj, “Centers, Forms, and Perspectives in World Cinema,” in Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2014.
Meta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande, “Cinema Beyond Borders: Slovene Films in a World Context,”, in A Companion to Eastern European Cinema, Ed. Aniko Imre (Blackwell, 2012), 148-166.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Beyond Competition: Archive and Discourse–57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, May 5-10, 2011- Part I,” Film International, June 24, 2011. And, Part II, June 27, 2011.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Anthology Film: The Future is Now: Film Producer as Creative Director,” Widescreen, V. 2, No. 2, 2010.
Shekhar Deshpande, “The Afterlife of War: The 15th Sarajevo Film Festival.”
Senses of Cinema, #53, Dec. 2009.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Anthology Films in European Cinema: New Frontiers of Collective Identities,” Studies in European Cinema, V. 7, No. 1, 77-88.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Whose identity is it anyway,” Seminar, 538, 2004.
Visual Culture in India
Visual Cultures Website- A Univ. Project
Courses
Visual Cultures, Intro. to Film, Short Film, and World Cinema
Interdisciplinary University Seminars: Walking, Silence, Short Story and Photography, and EcoCinema, and Climate Change
- SHEKHAR DESHPANDE: WINDOWS AND CINEMA SUNDAY 17:15
- The special guest at #AFFR2021 is the celebrated American film expert Shekhar Deshpande, co-autor of the landmark book World Cinema: A Critical Introduction.
- Dr. Deshpande’s Book Takes a Critical Look at World Cinema
- Drs. Deshpande and Mazaj '97 Named Routledge Featured Authors
- Dr. Deshpande Serves as Judge at 2019 Indian Film Festival
