Parameswaran’s course set for Themester program
Professor Radhika Parameswaran’s undergraduate course proposal was selected for the College of Arts and Sciences’ 2016-17 Themester program, which will focus on the topic of beauty.
Parameswaran’s course, Beauty and Its Global Beholders: Bodies, Economies, Cultures and Politics, will be offered in fall 2016, and she will draw on her research on media, beauty and globalization.
She has written and researched extensively on this topic. Publications include “Melanin on the Margins: Advertising and the Cultural Politics of Fair/Light/White beauty in India,” “Global Media Events in India: Contests Over Beauty, Gender and Nation,” “Globalization, Beauty Regimes and Mediascapes in the New India” and “Media Culture and Childhood in the Age of Globalization.”
The main course objective of her class is to explore feminine beauty all over the world in countries including China, India, Venezuela, Brazil and Nigeria. Parameswaran will teach about the relationships between feminine beauty in those places and race, sexuality, religion and other factors.
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