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Madhavi Mallapragada is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin. She is a faculty affiliate of UT's Center for Asian American Studies and the South Asia Institute in the Department of Asian Studies. Her research and teaching interests encompass the intersections of cultural studies, race and ethnicity, media, Asian Americans in and about media, online cultures, immigration, transnationalism, and media industries. Her book, 'Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States' (2014), analyzed the role of politics on the web in reshaping concepts of Indian-American identity and cultural citizenship in the late 1990s. Dr. Mallapragada is currently working on a book project titled 'Race, Ethnicity, and Media Industries', which examines issues of race and multiculturalism in the context of media industries during the 1990s. Her scholarly work has been published in notable journals such as the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, Television & New Media, New Media & Society, and South Asian Popular Culture, as well as in various edited anthologies.
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