Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison - 2006 (Communication Arts / Media and Cultural Studies)
M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison - 1999 (Communication Arts)
B.A., Dartmouth College - 1996 (Computer Science and Film Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Hashmi is interested in science fiction and the cultural politics of labor; the representation of work/labor on television; and the changing relationship between technologies of work and citizenship in the context of globalization.
Books and Publications
"At the Limits of Discourse: Political Talk in Drag on Late Night Show with Begum Nawazish Ali." South Asian Popular Culture. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
"Outsourcing the American Dream? Representing the Stakes of IT Globalizaion in America." Economic and Political Weekly, May. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Affect and Imagination in Sleep Dealer." Constituting the Human. Macaulay Honors College (CUNY). New York, April 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Whose Economic Health Do We Care About Anyway? News Coverage of Unemployment in the
1980s and the Present." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. New Orleans, March 10-13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Talk Shows in Pakistan: Negotiating the Limits of the Public Sphere." Global Fusion: New Directions in Global Communication and Media Studies. Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas, Oct. 22-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Performance Anxieties: White Masculinity and American Citizenship in the 1980s." Representing Citizenship: The 6th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies at the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University. Detroit, March 27-28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Learning to Be a Normal Girl: The Technology of Gender on 'My Life as a Teenage Robot.'" Console-ing Passions: The International Conference on Feminism and Television, Video, Audio. and New Media. Santa Barbara, Calif., April 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"White, Male and Cyborg: Imagining a New American for the Global Era." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Philadelphia, March 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Other Professional Activities
"Audiences with an Agenda: Audience Research on TV and the Web" panel respondent. The New York State Communication Association 65th Annual Conference. Hudson Valley, N.Y., October. 2007