Event

Cinema and Television Studies Speaker Series

SHILPA DAVÉ
American Studies, Brandeis University

Screening Asian Men in America:
Asian American Masculinity and American Popular Culture

Shilpa Davé is Assistant Professor of Asian American and Ethnic Studies in the Department of American Studies at Brandeis University. She is the co-editor of EAST MAIN STREET: ASIAN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (NYU Press). She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in Literature and her research areas include Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Popular Culture. She is currently working on a book project that explores political and cultural citizenship of South Asian Americans in literature and popular culture.