Pop Conference 2018

Manan Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is currently completing his book The United States of India, about South Asian and American intellectual exchange during the 1910s and 20s. His writing has been published... Read More →

Douglas S. Ishii is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and previously was an inaugural Chancellor’s... Read More →

Meenasarani Linde Murugan is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of Communication and Media Studies. She's written various academic online and print publications about media history, race, fashion, and gender, concerning contemporary programs like Mad Men... Read More →

Melissa Phruksachart is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. She received her PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Her research examines economies of Asian American presence in transnational U.S entertainment... Read More →