Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the most popular teachers at the University of Massachusetts and is nationally known among college students for his videotape Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video,which he created to present his critique of representations of women in popular culture and commercial images. Over the past fifteen years, Sut Jhally has been the executive producer of more than twenty videos produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.

As an author, his written work includes, The Codes of Advertising, co-author of Social Communication in Advertising, and Enlightened Racism. He is also co-editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. He has written broadly on issues of popular representation and is regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption.

For questions regarding appearances, please go to www.sutjhally.com

sutj@comm.umass.edu