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Deepa Kumar
Professor, author, lecturer
Deepa Kumar is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University. Her courses at Rutgers explore the limitations of corporate media, and the marginalization of dissenting voices. She is a regular on the lecture circuit, and has written a number of articles and essays on a variety of subjects, from Islamophobia and the media to the role of class in today’s society.
She published her first book, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike, in 2008. She is currently working on her second book, which analyzes the effects of the U.S. media on the Middle East.
