Vamsee Juluri

Vamsee Juluri
Occupation Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco
Academic background
Education PhD in Communication
Alma mater University of Massachusetts
Academic work
Discipline Media Studies and Communication

Vamsee Juluri is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco.[1]

He studied at the University of Massachusetts and received a PhD in 1999. He has written for several publications including Times of India[2], Huffington Post[3] and The Indian Express.[4] His research interest is in the globalization of media audiences with an emphasis on Indian television and cinema[5], mythology, religion[6], violence and Gandhian philosophy. He has published several papers and essays analyzing recurring themes in Bollywood, such as tradition[7] and violence.[8]

Juluri was the lead petitioner in the effort by academics of Indian against efforts to erase the name of “India” from textbooks of the California Board of Education, (California textbook controversy over Hindu history). As a result of his efforts which became a mass movement led to review and dismissal of several change to he History Social Science Frameworks (Syllabus). [9][10]

Selected Publications

  • Saraswati's Intelligence: The Kishkindha Chronicles (Westland Limited, 2016) ISBN 9789386224262 [11]
  • Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television (Peter Lang, 2003/Orient Longman, 2005)
  • The Mythologist: A Novel (Penguin India, 2010)
  • Bollywood Nation: India through its Cinema (Penguin India, 2013).
  • Rearming Hinduism: Nature, History and the Return of Indian Intelligence (Westland, 2014)

References

  1. ↑ Chin, Steven (2015-06-29). "Vamsee Juluri". University of San Francisco. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  2. ↑ "Vamsee Juluri Blog - Times of India Blog". Times of India Blog. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  3. ↑ "Vamsee Juluri | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  4. ↑ "Vamsee Juluri". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  5. ↑ Beaster-Jones, Jayson (2014-11-07), "Concluding Thoughts on the Art and Commerce of Hindi Film Songs", Bollywood Sounds, Oxford University Press, pp. 167–172, ISBN 9780199993468, retrieved 2018-08-10
  6. ↑ Frank, David A. (2011). "Obama's Rhetorical Signature: Cosmopolitan Civil Religion in the Presidential Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009". Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 14 (4): 605–630. doi:10.1353/rap.2011.0044. ISSN 1534-5238.
  7. ↑ Kim, Youna (2008-06-30). Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781135896430.
  8. ↑ Kavoori, Anandam P.; Punathambekar, Aswin (2008). Global Bollywood. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814747995.
  9. ↑ "Hyderabad man Vamsee Juluri saves 'India' in the US". Deccan Chronicle. 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  10. ↑ "California Textbooks: 'Editing out India is bizarre! We must fight back because this concerns all Indians, not just Hindus' - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  11. ↑ Balantrapu, Mihir (2017-02-04). "A natural balance". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
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