On this UVA Speaks podcast, Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, discusses the unprecedented number of awards won by Asian actors this past award season and how this accomplishment can lead to greater diversity throughout the entertainment industry. Davé also explores the significance of streaming services and social media platforms and how they have impacted the media and content creators in depicting Asians and Asian Americans by weaving their stories into American history and the present day.

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Shilpa Davé is an Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies, at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, at the University of Virginia. Davé researches and teaches about representations of race and gender in media, popular culture, comparative American studies, including Asian American and South Asian American Studies, and film, television, and literary studies. She is the author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (2013) and is co-editor of Global Asian American Popular Cultures (2016) and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005).