Ashwani Sharma is the Postgraduate programmes co-ordinator. He is Programme Leader for MA Media Studies and MA Global Media

He is the co-editor of darkmatter - a new independent online journal www.darkmatter101.org

tabula rasa - the subject of postcolonial thought www.tabularasa0.wordpress.com

He is the co-editor of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (Zed, 1996). He is currently working on a collection of essays: ‘Global Media Culture post 9/1; and British Asian popular culture

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• 1993 M.A. Film Studies, University of Derby
• 1985 M.Sc. Air Transport Engineering, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Bedford, UK
• 1984 B.Sc.(Hon) Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College, University of London, UK

Previous posts held

• Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London, 1996-2001
• Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London, 1993-96
• Director of Centre for New Ethnicities Research, University of East London, 2000-02
• Part –Time Lecturer, DeMontfort University, 1991-93
• Part –Time Lecturer, University of Derby, 1992-93
• Resource and Training Officer, Line Out Film & Video Workshop, Leicester, 1990-92
• Technical Production – Sound (TV and Radio), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), London, 1989-90
• Bookshop Worker, Central Books, London, 1989
• Reliability Systems Analyst, Aerosystems International, London, 1987-89
• Operations Analyst, British Aerospace, Surrey, 1985-87

Race, globalization, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory; world cinema; diasporic media, visual art, music and digital culture.

Module Leading:

• MS2404 Race and Representation
• MS3401 Globalization and Mass Media
• MA Media Cultures
• MA Postcolonial Cultures
• MA Global Media
• also teach on:
• MS3000 Dissertation
• MS306 Urban Film
• CS220 Sound Systems
• MA Context of Media Production
• MA Dissertations

All publications post 2001:

Journal articles

• 2003 ‘White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire’(with Sanjay Sharma) Fashion Theory Journal (Special Issue: Orientalism) (Volume 7, issue 3/4 pp301-318, ISSN:1859737315), Berg Publishers

Periodical and newspaper articles

• On-line Publication:
  2003 ‘South Asian Diaspora Music in Britain’ South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive (SALIDAA)www.salidaa.org.uk

Conference papers

• 24-25 March 2003 (Keynote speaker) DNAsia: Mapping the Future of South Asian Arts in the UK, Watermans arts centre, London, UK
• 23 November 2002 (Invited speaker) ‘Cultural Flows’ at Race, Racism, Ethnicity: Changing Research Agendas, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U
• 10-12 October 2002 (Co-convenor of Panel). Presented paper ‘The Dance of Shiva: (re)conceptualising race, techno-orientalism and cybernetic culture’ at Race in Digital Space , Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of California-Santa Barbara and MIT, USA
• 22 February 2002, (Invited speaker) ‘Rethinking Media Studies’ at Medialogues: New Media, New Media Studies , Open University, UK
• March 2001(Invited speaker) ‘Bombay’ at Locating Film, Coventry University, UK

Key publications pre 2001:

• 2000 ‘So Far So Good….’La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday’ (with Sanjay Sharma) in Theory, Culture and Society 17(3)
• 1996 Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music, edited by S. Sharma, J. Hutnyk and A. Sharma, Zed, London.
• 1996 'Sounds Oriental: The (Im)possibility of Theorising Asian Musical Cultures in Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music, Zed, London.
• 1993 'Blood, Sweat and Tears: Amitabh Bachchan Urban Demi-God', in You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men, edited by P. Kirkham and J. Thumin, Lawrence & Wishart, London.
• 1990 'Do They Think We're Uloo?' in The Neglected Audience, edited by J. Willis and T. Wollen, British Film Institute, London.

• Trustee and Management Board member of Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London, UK
• (2000-present)
• East Midlands Arts Award to produce Spanish Memories short video installation, 1992
• DJ, record collector and multimedia events producer (1982-present)
• Aspiring fiction writer and poet
• Former International hockey player. Winner of European Indoor club championship with Slough (1982)
• Supporter of Chelsea FC and the Indian cricket team!

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