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Shekhar A. Deshpande
Professor, Media and Communication
Murphy 226 1 (215) 572-2918
About Me
As Professor in Media and Communication at Arcadia University, I teach courses in visual cultures, cinema studies, and interdisciplinary university seminars ("Walking," "Silence," and "Short Story and Photography"). My research interests include cinema studies, world cinema, visual cultures, critical theory and philosophy. My master's thesis was on semiotics of television and doctoral thesis on the relationship between Michel Foucault's concept of popular memory memory and cinema. As Media Editor of Little India magazine since 1994, I wrote a series of columns, essays, and editorials on issues ranging from politics, culture, media to diasporic identities. My book, co-authored with Meta Mazaj (UPenn) has been published: World Cinema: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2018. My next book demands attention at the moment: Anthology Film and World Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2019). My writings have appeared in Senses of Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Widescreen and in an anthology on East European Cinema. I held the Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair at Arcadia University from 2005 until 2008. For over the past two decades at Arcadia, developing and growing the Communication program and the Dept. of Media and Communication occupied my energies as the Director and the Chair. Developing creative and research projects with students is on the top of my list for future endeavors in the Dept.
Hometown
At Home in the World
Home Country
Cosmopolitan
Education History
Southern Illinois University 1992
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Tennessee 1984
Master of Science in Broadcasting