Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Sociology Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Feminist Studies Department
Digital Arts and New Media

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Cultural Studies
Feminist Theory
Film and Politics
Globalization
Nationalism
Colonialism
Media Studies
Race

Primary Office Location Rachel Carson College Academic Building
RCC 314

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

My research and teaching interests center on popular media, nationalism, globalization, feminism, postcolonial theory, cultural theory, and modalities of difference such as race, caste, and gender. My book, Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, May, 2022), focuses on the intertwined projects of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India and their narration in popular culture. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/stories-that-bind/9781978828759 

I have a PhD in Communication from the University of Washington, Seattle and a Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota. 

Research Interests

Media studies, popular culture, political economy, feminist theory, cultural studies and cultural theory and sound studies. I am interested in questions concerning nationalism, neoliberalism and and my regional area of expertise is South Asia. I am interested in examinations of gender, caste, race and sexuality.  

Teaching Interests

I teach courses focused on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, popular culture and media studies. I have also taught courses focused on nationalism and gender and development. I have taught media studies courses focused on the U.S. context and courses interested in examining popular culture in South Asia. 

Awards, Honors and Grants

Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, May, 2022): International Communication Association's 2023 Outstanding Book Award. 

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Madhavi Murty, “Mentoring at the Boundary: Interdisciplinarity and the International Student of Color in Communication,” Communication, Culture & Critique, Vol. 14, Issue, Dec 2021, 687-691.

Madhavi Murty, “Genealogies: Postcolonial Media Studies” Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2018.

Madhavi Murty, “Chandra Talpade Mohanty,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Studies, October 2018.

Madhavi Murty, “It’s True India Has Emerged”: Gender, Class and the Entrepreneurial Subject in India’s Mainstream Media, Communication, Culture & Critique, vol. 7, issue 2, 2014, pp. 210-227.