Shoma Munshi is Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), and Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium (Penguin Books, forthcoming December 2012); Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television (Routledge, 2010); editor of Images of the 'Modern Woman' in Asia: Global Media, Local Meanings (Curzon 2001); and co-editor of Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia (Routledge, 2004, 2006), in addition to several articles in refereed journals. Munshi earned her PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris, France; and her work experience encompasses the University of Delhi, University of Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New Delhi, India. Munshi speaks several languages fluently.