Global media industries, streaming television, post-colonial studies, visual culture, Indian cinema, adaptation studies, mimetic theory, affect theory, dialectics in film and television
Aparna Shastri is a doctoral student of Cultural Studies at George Mason University. Originally from India, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Media from Devi Ahilya University’s Educational Multimedia Research Center, and then moved to the US for her graduate studies. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Media from Clemson University.
Her research interests include visual culture, global television studies, non-anglophone television, South Asian cinema, postcolonial studies, theories of mimesis and mimicry, literature-to-film adaptation studies, reception studies, and Victorian literature. She is interested in cross cultural media interactions, visual dialectics, and cultural imperialism in the contemporary media world.
Review of Television and the Afghan Culture Wars Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists by Wazhmah Osman (University of Illinois Press), Lateral 11.1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25158/L11.1.7
Review of The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication by Yohei Igarashi (Stanford University Press), Victoriographies, Volume 11 Issue 3, Page 339-341, ISSN 2044-2416 Available Online Nov 2021 https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0439
Review of Literature in Our Lives: Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman, Brontë Studies (2021), 46:4, 417-418, DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2021.1952786
Review of The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination., Brontë Studies (2020), 45:3, 302-303, DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2020.1756333