Parameswaran to Serve as Editor of Communication, Culture & Critique
Radhika Parameswaran has been appointed as the next editor of the International Communication’s journal Communication, Culture & Critique. She was selected by the ICA Publication Committee, with the Board of Directors approving the selection at the London Board meeting on 17 June. CCC Volume 7, whose first issue will publish in March 2014, will be the first of her 3-year, three-volume term as editor of CCC.
Parameswaran is a Professor in the School of Journalism Media Studies at Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Global Change. She was also recently a visiting scholar of Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. She received her PhD in Mass Communication in 1997 from the University of Iowa, and also has master’s degrees from Texas Christian University and Osmania University.
Parameswaran has been twice nominated for the Outstanding Junior Faculty Scholar Award of the ICA’s Feminist Studies Division. She has also won four Top Paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and won AEJMC’s Mary Yodelis Smith Award in 2004. She has been previously published in Communication, Culture & Critique, as well as ICA’s Journal of Communication and Communication Theory and many other journals in the field. She has also authored two monographs and 10 book chapters.
Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, gender and media globalization, and postcolonial studies, especially in India and South Asia. She is currently editing “Audience Studies,” one of eight volumes in the forthcoming International Companions to Media Studies series to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Parameswaran will begin accepting manuscripts for Communication, Culture & Critique in October. Her official editorship begins 1 January 2014 and ends 31 December 2016, with the completion of CCC’s Volume 9.