Professor of TV. Brewer of cold. Texan in Connecticut. Author of The Television Code. Writing about death and TV. Co-editing The Cocktail Lover’s Guide to TV History. Will eat any sugary treat you give me.

Media industries, labor, and unions. 

Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both UTX, 2021), Co-editor of Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), co-writing with @mirandabanks.bsky.social, co-organizing CP25

Assoc. Prof @GSU

Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd

Swapnil Rai

debbie or deb or deborah

Kate Fortmueller

Aswin Punathambekar