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Tasha Oren is an Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University, serving as Director of the Film and Media Studies Program. She holds a PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000), an MA in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan (1995), and a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (1995). Her research focuses on film, television, media industries, cultural representation, and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on Asian American Studies, neurodiversity, and global media flows.
Her notable works include Demon in the Box (2004), Food TV (2023), and co-editing The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism (2019), which received critical acclaim. She has been awarded the Best Edited Collection prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for her work on global television formats. Oren serves on editorial boards for journals like Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society and represents Tufts in the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women and Sexuality.
Her teaching spans courses like TV in the Age of Change, Global Indigenous Film & Media, and graduate seminars. Recent research explores intersections between media formats, cultural diplomacy, and neurodiversity representation. She has secured grants including the CHAT Fellowship (2025-2026) and the Muse grant (2025) for projects on translingual storytelling and aural practices.
Lab/Team Affiliations: Film and Media Studies Program, International Literary and Visual Studies Program, Judaic Studies Program.
