Madhavi Murty

Madhavi Murty holds a PhD from the Department of Communications at the University of Washington in Seattle and will join the Council as a visiting faculty member is Spring 2012. Her dissertation, “Tales of a Nation Unbound: Mass Media and the Remaking of Gender, Caste and Religion in Post-Reform India”, combines research interests in feminism and gender, cultural studies, popular culture and nationalism. She has authored and co-authored publications in Signs, Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, and Popular Communication. Madhavi will offer a course titled Gender and Media in India in Spring 2012.