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Apr 30, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Shekhar Deshpande, professor of Media and Communication, served as a judge on the Narrative Film Jury at the 2019 Indian Film Festival of LA (IFFLA) from April 11 to 14. The IFFLA, a non-profit organization that has been running for 17 years, is devoted to cultivating a greater appreciation...
Sep 13, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Shekhar Deshpande, professor of Media and Communication, and Dr. Meta Mazaj ’97 were named as Routledge Featured Authors for their recent book, World Cinema: A Critical Introduction. World Cinema, published by Routledge, offers a critical perspective on cinematic industries around the world...
Apr 12, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Shekhar Deshpande’s first book, World Cinema: A Critical Introduction, explores the depth and complexity of global film and serves as blueprint to transform casual encounters with film into systemic inquiries of world cinema. Co-authored with Meta Mazaj '97, cinema studies lecturer at the...
May 25, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Kalenda Eaton, associate professor of English, will improve the networking and research opportunities of Humanities faculty and students as the 2017 recipient of the Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair. Dr. Eaton was recognized during the Years of Service luncheon on May 24. Dr....
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
Southern Illinois University 1992
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Tennessee 1984
Master of Science in Broadcasting
Author • 2018
Book, Routledge
Co-Authored with Meta Mazaj
Author • 2019
Book, Bloomsbury Academic
Author • 2014
E-publication, Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Vol. 2, no. 1.
Co-Authored with Meta Mazaj
Author • 2012
Contribution to book, A Companion to Eastern European Cinema, Ed. Aniko Imre (Blackwell)
Co-Authored with Meta Mazaj
Shekhar Deshpande • 2011
Article, Film International
Shekhar Deshpande • 2011
Article, Film International
Shekhar Deshpande • 2010
Article, Widescreen, v. 2, no. 2.
Shekhar Deshpande • 2010
Article, Senses of Cinema, #53.
Shekhar Deshpande • 2010
Article, Studies in European Cinema, v 7, no. 1, 77-88.
Shekhar Deshpande • 2004
Article, Seminar, 538.
Chair, Media & Communication • 2013
E-publication, Nollywood Website-- a Dept. Project
Chair, Media & Communication • 2007
E-publication, Visual Cultures Website- A Univ. Project