Tejaswini Ganti
Tejaswini Ganti is Associate Professor of Anthropology and core faculty in the Program in Culture and Media at New York University. She has been conducting research about the social world and filmmaking practices of the Hindi film industry since 1996 and is the author of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry (2012) and Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (2004; 2nd ed. 2013). Her current research examines the politics of language and translation within the Bombay film world; the dubbing of Hollywood films into Hindi; the formalization and professionalization of film training through film schools in India; and a social history of Indian cinema in the U.S. She is currently writing a book, Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: Translation, Creativity, and Value in Indian Media Worlds for which she received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2022..
Vicki Mayer
Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. Her research encompasses media and communication industries, their political economies, infrastructures, and their organizational work cultures. Her publications seek to theorize and illustrate how these industries shape workers and how media and communication work shapes workers and citizens. Her theories inform her work in the digital humanities and pedagogy, most recently on ViaNolaVie and NewOrleansHistorical. Her books include Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media (2003); Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (2011); and Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy (2017).
Anne-Marit Waade
Anne-Marit Waade is Professor in Global Media Industries and Head of Department, Media Studies and Journalism at Aarhus University. Her research focuses on the creative industry, screen tourism, promotional culture, location studies and landscapes in television series. Her publications include Wallanderland (2010), Locating Nordic Noir (2017), Screening the Westcoast (2021), Screen Tourism on the Smart Phone (2021), and Screening Arctic Landscapes (2023). Her research has been funded by national and international funding bodies, including projects on the international export of Danish television drama series (DFF), screen tourism destination development (Danish Innovation fund), travel series as television entertainment (DFF), and European crime series (DETECt, H2020).
