Vamsee Juluri (born 1969) is a professor of media studies at the

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Career

Juluri was born in

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in 1969. His mother is the

Telugu film Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, Hy ...

actress Jamuna, and his father was Juluri Ramana Rao, a professor of zoology. Juluri studied at the

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and received a PhD in 1999. He has written for several publications including ''Times of India'', ''Huffington Post'', and ''

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''. His research interest is in the globalization of media audiences with an emphasis on Indian television and cinema, mythology, religion, violence and Gandhian philosophy. He has published several papers and essays analyzing recurring themes in Bollywood, such as tradition and violence. Juluri was the lead petitioner in the effort by academics of Indian origin against efforts to address the countries of historical British India as "South Asia" in textbooks put forth by the California Board of Education, (

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). As a result of his efforts which became a mass movement led to review and dismissal of several changes to the History Social Science Frameworks (Syllabus).

Books

Essays

*''Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television'', New York : Peter Lang, 2003, 155 p. *''Bollywood Nation: India Through Its Cinema'', New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 2013, 211 p. *''Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia, and the Return of Indian Intelligence'', Chennai : Westland ltd, 2015, 229 p. *''Nine Days in Kishkindha: A Memoir about Hanuman, Hampi and My Father'', Kindle Edition, 2018, 116 p. *''Writing Across a Cracked World: Hindu Representation and the Logic of Narrative'', Kindle Edition, 2018, 255 p.

Novels

*''The Mythologist'', New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2010, 271 p. *''Saraswati's Intelligence'' (The Kishkindha Chronicles, #1), Chennai : Westland Ltd., 2016, 327 p. *''The Firekeepers of Jwalapuram ''(The Kishkindha Chronicles, #2), Kindle Edition, 2020, 328 p.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Juluri, Vamsee 1969 births Living people University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni University of San Francisco faculty American male writers of Indian descent Hindu revivalist writers